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" I always felt like, one of the niches is if you can recruit the SEC, you can be a head coach in the SEC. "

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" It's a lot more important to get quality young men and good student-athletes that can be successful at the University of Georgia. That's my No. 1 goal. "

" Every day I pull into that parking spot that says 'Head Football Coach,' I get out of my car and pinch myself sometimes, just to make sure it's real, sort of like, 'Is this really happening?' "

" I've been very fortunate to be with Coach Saban this long, learned a lot of football from him. It's been kind of the key to my personal success out of the places that I've coached. "

" A lot of people have said, 'Why not take a smaller school head job?' I honestly feel my growth was better being in a large program, being around Coach Saban, and learning how to manage a lot of the tough situations you deal with in the media. "

" Our personalities are the not the same, Coach Saban and I. And I have the utmost respect for what he's done and what he's done for me and my family. "

" I think it's what's best for that kid. Are you going to teach that kid a lesson for 10 years down the road by suspending him a game? "

" I think in order to push kids and coach kids the way we want to coach them, we've got to have their trust. "

" Coach Richt is a good friend of mine. I respect Coach Richt and worked for him for a year and respect the man he is and respect what he stands for. "

" Change is uncomfortable. "

" I think the growth you get from working at a place like Alabama and with a program under Nick Saban, it helps me immensely. "

" I've seen Coach Saban over the years have to make a lot of tough decisions, and there's not one decision he doesn't make that he doesn't bounce ideas off the staff. To me, that's invaluable. "

" We've got to recruit at the same level of the people who are winning titles and playing for titles, and to do that, we've got to have great facilities. "

" It's always a danger when you've got a great quarterback that throws the ball well, that scrambles well. You may push him into his asset. You may force him to do what he does best. So you've got to be able to throw curveballs and stop the pass as much as stop the run. "

" What you have success with, you feel comfortable with, you always rely on that a little bit. "

" What I'm worried about is our team and our players developing and getting better. That's the most important thing. "

" Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players. "

" It's hard to say that it gets any better to be at your alma mater and run a major college football program. "

" Every young man that we want to bring here to the University of Georgia, we want them to graduate from this place. "

" It never stops. It's 365 recruiting. That cell phone you've got, these smartphones are the death of college coaching. "

" If you chart SEC champions over a 20-year period, the one consistent thing to me is you're not going to win if you don't have a quarterback. It's too critical of a position. He decides something every play. "

" I felt like I was selling a product of the University of Georgia that's really special and really special to me as far as the education you can get, the development you can get, and the league we play in. That's what I've sold. "

" I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor. "

" Let's be honest. Georgia, if you get the best players in this state, you should be winning championships. "

" I'm a big believer in your offensive limitations come from your quarterback. "

" There's a lot of people who think in order to be a good head coach, you've got to be a head coach at a smaller school. "

" It's never me against Saban, and I have too much respect for him to say that anyway. I never felt that way. "

" I think you never leave what you learn. "

" I moved seven times the first seven years I coached. "

" At the end of the day, you have to go out on the grass and perform. "

" To me, personally, my development to become a head coach will be much better working for Coach Saban than necessarily going somewhere else because you learn every day that you're in there. "