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"I didn't care if we ever quit practicing. I loved it. The only other guy I ever knew who loved it as much was Jerry Duncan. He would beg to practice even when he was hurt. I've actually seen him cry because the trainer told him he couldn't scrimmage."
"Don't give up. Reach down inside of you and you'll find something left."
"I'm no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work."
"I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens."
"Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire."
"I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose."
"First there are those who are winners, and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners, but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game."
"They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing."
"The biggest mistake coaches make is taking borderline cases and trying to save them. I'm not talking about grades now, I'm talking about character. I want to know before a boy enrolls about his home life, and what his parents want him to be."
"But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance."
"I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be."
"Here's a twenty, bury two."
"I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that."
"I don't care how much talent a team has - if the boys don't think tough, practice tough, and live tough, how they play tough on Saturday."
"It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it."
"Don't talk too much. Don't pop off. Don't talk after the game until you cool off."
"I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like."
"I'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad."
"Get the winners into the game."
"Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right."