1. “Why do you continually try to get me to say something that doesn’t respect one of them? I’m not going to, so quit askin.”
2. “Football is not Hamlet. It’s not tragedy. It should be fun.”
3. “Discipline is not punishment. Discipline is changing someone’s behavior.”
4. “It’s not what you say, it’s what you do that truly defines who you are.”
5. “Focus on the little things, because little things become big things in the long run.”
6. “We have an opponent in this state that we work every day, 365 days a year, to dominate.”
7. “It’s a game that 365 days a year everybody has got to live with the results.”
8. “Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.”
9. “I don’t care what you did yesterday. If you’re happy with that, you have bigger problems.”
10. “I guess I have to say it, I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.”
11. “Character is not something you’re born with, it’s something you develop.”
12. “Champions don’t always win, but they always fight.”
13. “Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis.”
14. “You can either accept the status quo or strive to be better.”
15. “Talent is putting skills into productive use.”
16. “No matter what your chosen profession, be prepared for opportunity and be willing to take it—your destiny may depend on it.”
17. “The number one thing on any team that will keep your players from being selfish is respect for the other players.”
18. “Good is not good enough when better is expected.”
19. “Everybody hits me up for eating Little Debbies, but no one passes that cookie jar without taking one.”
20. “There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you’ll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.”
21. “Don’t focus on results, focus on the process that leads to results.”
22. “I don’t like to lose. I don’t expect to lose.”
23. “If you don’t consistently improve, what you did yesterday won’t be good enough tomorrow.”
24. “What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference – the precious present moment.”
25. “Focus on the play like it has a history and a life of its own.”
26. “Do what you do and be who you are.”
27. “The expectations are what they are here, and we don’t run around talking about them.”
28. “The more one emphasizes winning, the less he or she is able to concentrate on what actually causes success.”
29. “You can’t get from A to Z by passing up B.”
30. “You can have excuses or you can have results, but you can’t have both.”
31. “I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.”
32. “You’ve been wrong five years in a row & every year we’ve won it, you haven’t picked us. But I’m rooting for you.”
33. “It’s not the will to win that matters, but the will to prepare to win that matters.”
34. “The whole goal is to constantly, consistently improve.”
35. “You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.”
36. “I don’t think it’s about who you play, I think it’s about who you are.”
37. “Character is what you do when no one else is watching.”
38. “Adversity is just an opportunity to show what you’re made of.”
39. “Every choice, every decision, everything we do everyday, we want to be a champion.”
40. “The roster that we have today may change tomorrow. It is what it is for right now.”
41. “We have got to use every opportunity to improve individually so we can improve collectively.”
42. “I played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.”
43. “I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.”
44. “There’s no talent shortage, only a shortage of discipline.”
45. “Expect to win, but don’t be surprised by failure. Learn from it and move forward.”
46. “Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.”
47. “Education does not promise success, but makes it easier.”
48. “If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.”
49. “If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.”
50. “The only thing that determines your success is your mindset and your effort.”
51. “College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.”
52. “Process guarantees success. A good process produces good results.”
53. “You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.”
54. “There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results.”
55. “Anyone who doesn’t win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game.”
56. “You can’t win together if you don’t work together.”
57. “Our goal is to work against things we have not seen that we will see in the near future.”
58. “Any team that does not win it’s conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game.”
59. “I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.”
60. “Teaching is the ability to inspire learning.”
61. “It’s never OK to lose a game.”
62. “The process is all about making the right choices, not living with the wrong ones.”
63. “I think center is a critical position.”
64. “I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.”
65. “We have to compete within ourselves relative to the determination it takes to be successful.”
66. “Be on time, because it shows you care.”
67. “Winning comes from the consistency of doing the little things right.”
68. “The real competition is the voice inside your head that says you can’t do it.”
69. “Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.”
70. “Great leaders are not always popular.”
71. “We’re not going to talk about what we’re going to accomplish. We’re going to talk about how we’re going to do it.”
72. “Baseball manager Casey Stengel once quipped, “The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.”
73. “I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?”
74. “Great leaders do not rush to make changes because of failure.”
75. “Discipline is not a sometimes thing; it is an all-time thing.”
76. “I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.”
77. “High achievers don’t like mediocre people, mediocre people don’t like high achievers.”
78. “I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.”
79. “I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.”
80. “Never let success go to your head, and never let failure go to your heart.”
81. “That issue has gone under the bridge, under the next bridge, over the next dam and is gone.”
82. “Champions are rare. Everybody has some chance, some opportunity to change and improve, but not everybody takes advantage. Be somebody who does.”
83. “Success is not defined by wins and losses, but by the effort and attitude you bring.”
84. “Focus on the process of what it takes to be successful.”
85. “The process is about doing things right, all the time, from the start.”
86. “All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.”
87. “It doesn’t matter what you are ranked until the end.”
