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" You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, 'I must have contributed to this.' "

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" Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama. "

" 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. "

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

" If I say I like one person, that means everybody that voted for the other person doesn't like me. So, why would I do that? "

" Now, everybody always says there's no 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team. So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are. "

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

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

" One of these days when I'm finished coaching at Alabama, I'll write an authorized book because there's only one expert on my life, and guess who that is... me. And there won't be any misinformation. There won't be any false statements. There won't be any hearsay. There won't be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I'm not saying it's good or bad; it kind of is what it is. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we're out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It's harder to find defensive players. "

" 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. "

" I don't think I'm complicated at all. I'm not political, and I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, and I don't say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There's no trying to fool somebody. "

" 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 never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities. "

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

" When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what's important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better. "

" 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. "

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

" The way I look at it is, if you don't want somebody to know something, don't say it. If you don't want them to see you do something, don't do it. "

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

" I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn't seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team. "

" I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose? "

" I've had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive. "