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" I don't believe in the coach-in-waiting thing. I don't think that works. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" To be honest, it makes you a lot better coach when your boss is in the meeting room. You're a lot more driven every day. "

" 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. "

" A team is a group of young men playing together. The program is the entirety of that. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When your mom and dad read the paper, they like to know their sons are on the roster. "

" My family's so happy in Tuscaloosa. My wife loves it. "

" My goal is to outwork everybody in recruiting, sign the best players in the state, and turn these guys into the best team we can. "

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

" Change is uncomfortable. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" You've got to be diversified enough. That's the truth in the SEC and in college football. "

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

" 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. "

" Welcome to the world we live in as coaches. You've got to figure out what you can do best and better to get these kids a chance to be successful. I think that comes through a lot of things - confidence, improvement, recruiting. "

" I could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, 'Hey, he's Mickey Andrews.' "

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

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

" At the end of the day, if you're not beating the teams on the road recruiting that you have to beat on the field, then you're probably not going to win many championships. "

" The amount of pressure that I've put on myself as a defensive coordinator for the last 10, 11 years, I really believe there's a lot more decisions that go into that position than the head coach. "

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

" How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well. "

" The ultimate deal is: Are you winning and are you successful? The guys who've done that have had opportunities. "

" 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. "