I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had a lot of them. Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. And, three, have a plan for everything. A plan for practice, a plan for the game. A plan for being ahead, and a plan for being behind 20-0 at half, with your quarterback hurt and the phones dead, with it raining cats and dogs and no rain gear because the equipment man left it at home.

If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games.

They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.

Football changes and so do people.

Here's a twenty, bury two.

I don't hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them.