610 Quotes by Nick Saban

I think one of the things that really impressed me was the fact that he wanted to be here. It was kind of his dream to be able to come back in this state and play and maybe develop a legacy here. I think that's something that was important to him and something that was interesting to us.

Both guys did some good things and we're going to continue to try to feature both those players.

It doesn't get any bigger than that. It was a big play in the game.

Brown playing more and more and more will help us to determine how we do that, but I think to speculate on that right now would be very premature.

It doesn't mean that just because we work somebody out that we have an issue. That is not something that anybody should assume. There are things called information gathering and we are allowed to use workouts of players who are not under contract to gather information about those players.

Even though our offensive line did a really good job this year, it is an area of our team that we may be able to add something to that might enhance it even more, especially with the kind of running backs that we have. I don't think we have an older guy on our team who is not capable of continuing to play. I think the issue becomes, can they do it and sustain it for the season? Those are the tough decisions that we have to make, but we are going to have to do that with defensive players because we need to get younger.

I tell my kids that a few times, too.

Bobby's an outstanding person and as fine an assistant as we had at Michigan State, ... To be able to hire someone of his caliber, who also has knowledge and experience of your system -- it's almost like you didn't lose a coach because there's so much continuity.

Everybody that sits in the room on our staff has made a contribution to building that offense. We have built it from the ground up, in terms of the language that we use, and that's not something we want to change for the players.