Al Davis fires everybody.

It's all right to have fun.

I'm not driven by money anymore.

I know I rubbed people the wrong way.

I just like to have fun with the fans.

I like helping first-year head coaches.

Age is irrelevant. Experience is relevant.

I have a 'Golden Tee' machine in my house.

One game is never going to define a player.

You never want your dad to introduce you to a girl.

I needed Nick Saban more than I needed Pete Carroll.

I'd like to think I'm always going to defend our players.

You don't win championships by having the cheapest budget.

I have begun to realize just how amazing God's plan can be.

To do the impossible, you must be able to see the invisible.

You have to be yourself. You can't pretend to be somebody else.

Other kids were watching John Elway. I was watching Tom Landry.

You can be really hot one minute, the next minute be unemployed.

We aspire to be like Jim Harbaugh. No, seriously, he does a great job.

I'm not really big on humiliating assistant coaches in front of everybody.

When God gives you a second chance, it's not something you take for granted.

I was a graduate assistant at Colorado State, and I think we got $550 a month.

When you're little you either want to be like your dad or be directly opposite.

Coach Saban and I have a great relationship, regardless of what people may think.

As far as the bowl games, I don't think the players really play for that. Not at USC.

You can't just go visit somewhere and come away and know how they run their business.

I don't know if God is a sports fan or not, but I do know this: He loves a good comeback.

This profession, I don't know why, you're supposed to be so serious and just be so proper.

I make mistakes, and sometimes in split seconds. Then seconds later I know how wrong I was.

When you're a sports figure and people dislike you, they're going to look for the negatives.

I don't think there's a person out there who can say they haven't done something they regret.

In the end what matters is, do you develop your team, do you win games and do you graduate your players.

I'm usually pretty reserved, but I really couldn't hold myself in because I was so excited for these guys.

You know what I didn't realize at the time is a really good blessing, is that I was a really crappy player.

Once you start rooting against somebody, you're always going to look for the negative in everything they do.

In general, I do not feel the media is very positive toward game performances unless the players play perfectly.

People ask me what Nick (Saban) says to me on the sidelines. It is just, 'I love you so much. Can we just run some.'

Any time that you get big titles or head jobs at a young age, there's going to be that factor. 'He didn't pay his dues.'

I've always valued more where I work for and the fans and the current players than what the national perception is of me.

I don't think you've done something by getting a job. I think you've done something by proving you can succeed at that job.

If something comes on the radio or in print, I don't think there are any facts to it at all until someone shows some proof.

Winning changes the perception of what you do, and whether it's a positive or a negative, even though it's the exact same thing.

Toughness isn't that you've got to fight with the guy after the play or punch him because he punched you. That's not tough. That's dumb.

I think I was 24 when I went to USC with Pete Carroll. Pete believed in people and never worried about their age. I learned that from him.

A Tennessee fan mailed me things I signed for him because they said they don't want this trash in their house. So they mailed it back to me.

Any experience you have, there are good parts of it and bad parts, and you have to learn from the bad parts and the mistakes that you've made.

Everything we own really belongs to God, we are just renting it, and when we die those things are going to become somebody else's possessions.

There are different things I've done that I wouldn't do again that kept following me. That's the price that you pay when you make mistakes early on.

I think as you make mistakes, the No. 1 thing you've got to do is learn from them and not just make excuses for them. I've made more than anybody, probably.

I should have been paying Coach Saban instead of them paying me because of the amount of knowledge that you learn in three years, and you view 'The Process.'

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