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If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.
You adhere to a philosophy, but part of the philosophy I have is that I don't want to be too doggone inflexible that I miss a good player.
What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment.
But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books
I have scars on my knee from an ACL surgery. I have a scar on my ankle from ankle surgery. I have a scar on my left hand from hand surgery.
In Alabama, when you come out of the hospital, they have to stamp your birth certificate with either Alabama or Auburn, or you don't leave.
As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
If we lose a game, I change up what I did that day, like if I eat something that day I will not eat the same thing again the next game day.
I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.
There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.
When I talk about a successful program, define that. It's not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
If you think you have a good idea, get into the marketplace as quickly as you can, using as little money as possible, and see what happens.
I was very involved defensively at Florida, and regardless of popular opinion, I wasn't as much on offense. Should have been, but I wasn't.
As much as I disliked it, my brothers used to whoop me every day, but I have a feeling that I'm probably a stronger man today because of it.
I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.
I can't control the criticism. It's something you certainly don't appreciate, but by the same token, everybody is entitled to their opinion.
Bob Sanders wasn't the biggest guy coming out of Erie, Pa., but I don't think anybody would dispute that he was a pretty good player for us.
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.
Early in my career I determined that I would not bring the problems of my work home with me. For the most part, I have been able to do that.
I don't Twitter. I don't text for those very reasons. I don't want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.
When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens at every level.
I did learn that some of the things that are great for locker rooms are inappropriate for political discourse. That's a wisdom I've garnered.
I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.
We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody's got to buy into that standard or you really can't have any team chemistry.
There's no way running on a beach or at some high school playground that you're going to get in football shape like you do when you practice.
The draft is like game day on a 3rd-and-5. You have a lot of plays you can choose from. You go with your gut, pick and play and hope it works.
Today, you've got a decision to make. You're gonna get better or you're gonna get worse, but you're not gonna stay the same. Which will it be?
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.
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.
Personally - I also continued my education while I was coaching, attending night school and summer school, taking correspondence courses, etc.
Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.
The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.
I want to bring back the pride and tradition long associated with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and more importantly, with the people of Pittsburgh.
You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare.
I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.
We have what we call a dictator offense. We dictate to defenses by making them do what we want them to do. And we do it by creating formations.
If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupation third, that's when I've found success.
If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.
The one thing you have to be careful of is trying to do what other teams and players are doing when you don't have the people to do it yourself.
How can it be that we laugh about England's obsession with the royal family? At least the royal family has college degrees and military service.
Football players are busy (with) study halls and tutoring. Well, anyway, at South Carolina they are. I don't know about all these other schools.
The collisions happen 40 yards down the field, so if you take off from 5 yards or 10, it does not even matter. Do I make sense? I mean, come on.
A.J. Bryant is a player waiting to happen. If he gets a little confidence going and a couple of catches, he can really do some big things for us.
The government shutdown, we all know that's a sham. I mean, are they really going to just go to the entire Army and Navy and say, 'You're fired.'
Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.
The media wants a nice guy, so I can give that to them. I figured I could be myself in this interview since no one's gonna read this JV newspaper.
Success is the peace of mind that comes when you know you have given everything you have to give to the opportunities that life has presented you.
Reminiscing, with obvious emotion, on his long career: It's like the size of the crowd here today. It always surprises me. But I do appreciate it.
We are going to Baton Rouge and one of the most storied stadiums in the country, a place I can truthfully say is the loudest place I've ever been.
Our goal is to develop our team, to earn what we get, to learn, to develop unselfish attitudes. If we achieve that, the results is that we'll win.