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" I don't believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team. "

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" I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself. "

" I try to stay out of the spotlight. "

" I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose. So when you think about that, you're always motivated to, 'I don't want to lose the next game. I don't want to lose the next game.' "

" Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game. "

" We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure. "

" I don't control what people say. I don't control what people put on dot-com or anything else. "

" I think there's a certain pride people have in competition. "

" I don't know how many times I've been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn't matter. It's only the next shot that matters. "

" I think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football. "

" You can't allow yourself to be vulnerable. "

" If we'd had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami. "

" I'm not going to be the Alabama coach. "

" When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy. "

" I don't know if I'm different from everybody else, but there's really only two things to me that are really, really important - recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here. "

" All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do. "

" One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity. "

" George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience. "

" I want what's best for our country. I'm not sure I can figure that out. "

" We played in a number of these neutral site games, I would call them, whether it's a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that's not really a home game for them. "

" Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that's a negative, but I think it's a real positive. You have the ball in your hand every time when you're a quarterback. Whether you're handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that's extremely important. "

" The thing I like about college football so much is you can affect these guys a lot more when they are 18-22, 23 years old in terms of people and having a chance to be more successful. They are still a value type development, where you have a chance to help them mature a bit and help them be a little more successful in life. "

" First of all, you've got to have a vision of 'What kind of program do I want to have?' Then you've got to have a plan to implement it. Then you've got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it. "

" I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don't ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers. "

" Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do. "

" I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities. "

" I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that's not necessarily right. "

" I don't want people to think I'm not happy when we win - I am. But there's a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, 'This is it - we conquered the world.' We didn't. We just won a game. "

" You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It's hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football. You can't keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren't always made by you, especially who you bring to your team. "

" It's never OK to lose a game. "

" I don't ever want the players to relax in a game. "