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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I don't try to sensationalize anybody. I'm not trying to entertain. I'm trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program. "

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" Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I've ever been involved with. "

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

" Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot. You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score. "

" 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. "

" My wife gets so mad at me because I don't like to cook on the grill. "

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" It's been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it's personally, academically, or athletically. "

" I try to stay out of the spotlight. "

" I don't know that there's any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we've ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get? "

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

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

" My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It's not just the job. A lot of people don't get that. My life is here. "

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

" I feel like I've been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind. "

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" What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can't get rid of the guy. He never goes away. "

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

" 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. "

" One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you're around guns unless you're going hunting, and you don't want to mess around with women that you don't know because a lot of times, bad things happen. "

" Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons. "

" College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game. "

" If you're a coach, you're a teacher. "

" 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. "

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" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I want what's best for people who want to improve the quality of their life. I hope whoever our leader is will do all that he can do to make our country safe and improve the quality of life for a lot of the people we have in our country, and I don't think I am qualified to determine who that should be. "

" It's great to see our players get some of their dreams come true. "

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

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

" You wear your team out, and it's hard to get them back. "