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

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

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

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

" 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 only thing that matters with my kids are them graduating and playing well, and I try to do my dangedest to get them to play well. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I think, as a coach, you have to be willing to do what's best for the player. And you say what's best for the player: is it better to give him a game suspension, three-game suspension, no suspension. I think each case may be different in that. "

" 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. "

" I don't think I've worked a day in my life. "

" It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement. "

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

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

" A lot of people think our standard is to be first in the SEC, be first in the country, first in our red zone, and run defense. We really don't go by that motto. We go by, 'Be the best Alabama defense there's been.' "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When you talk about the SEC, you never get a chance to rest. "

" 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. "

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

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