If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.

I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs.

I would love to do another hockey movie. There are a lot of people in Hollywood looking for the right hockey script.

I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.

I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.

When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.

I bat righty.

The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.

I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.

John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.

I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'

I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.

Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.

I wanted to play this part: the goofy rock and roller who can't hang up his guitar when it's clear to everyone else that he should.

I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.

On a movie set, there's so much down time, adjusting the lighting. It gave me time to nap, call my friends, relax, work out. But with TV, there's no break time. None.

When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there.

I'm not perfect. I don't claim to be perfect. So, when people point out I'm imperfect, so what? That's just who I am.

God creates us to compete. He creates us to win. It matters. But you've got no chance if you don't do your best.

No matter what's behind us in the rearview mirror, it's always about what's next.

Continue to do common things in an uncommon way. Continue to be 'all in.' Continue to apply 'best is the standard.' Continue to be a person of excellence in everything you do.

I just made a decision a long time ago: I'm not going to be defined by a scoreboard.

You better have an anchor in life. It doesn't matter if you're a Division I head football coach or Joe Schmo from Okemoh. Bad things happen. If you're not anchored, you're going to be washed away.

Always remember, the goals that we have achieved pale in comparison to the daily commitments it took to get there.

There's a lot of good police officers. There's thousands of perfect traffic stops. Lot of good men. Lot of good women. But those don't get the stories.

A lot of these things in this world were only a dream for Martin Luther King. Not a one-term, but a two-term African-American president. And this is a terrible country? That was a dream for Martin Luther King.

I'm always just focused on being great where I'm at and blooming where I'm planted.

When you get a young group of people that believe, are passionate... and committed to a single purpose, you better look out. Great things can happen.

You got to be a champion on the inside.

I think we have a sin problem in the world. It's so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a sin problem.

If Alabama were 8-4, they'd still be dominating the conversation.

I'm not a sympathetic guy when I see people throwing their lives away and using their life's obstacles as excuses to fail. I just don't buy into that.

If you grow up with traditions in your family, it's always nice to be able to get home and have those moments.

My dad was a great man, and I loved him, but he had some demons he fought. It was tough to see some of those things as a kid, but I believe God doesn't save you from things; he saves you through them.

It's the journey to get there. It's that moment in that locker room when you're with a group of people that have gotten it done. There's nothing like it. If you could bottle that up and take that out in the world, you'd dominate.

I've always really respected Mark Richt. I think he's a great man, first of all, and I think he's a great coach and a guy that truly cares about the players and always has.

We're all going to experience death and failure and setbacks and disappointments and cancer and, you know, it's a really difficult world. And for me, God has always - in my relationship with Christ - He's given me hope and peace.

I think God has got a sense of humor. I really do.

My driving force in this business is to create and build great men, and to do that, you have to have great relationships.

You may not have any interest in Clemson whatsoever, but if Clemson calls, and they want to pay for you to come, and feed you and put you in a hotel, well, who doesn't want to go do that? Sign me up. Let's go, man.

I always told people Alabama was the smartest state because it has four As and a B.

My entire life, nothing's been easy. This is the way it ought to be.

The thing I enjoy the most about being the head coach is that I get to create the climate. I get to control the environment everybody comes to work in every day, and I'm very in tune to the chemistry, the morale of my staff, my support staff, my secretaries, the guy cleaning the building, the players, the walk-ons.

I'm a Christian, but I've coached and played with Muslims and all kind of different religions.

I had a lot of time as a kid to dream. There wasn't much else left to do.

Trust me, people that know me know I ain't perfect, but I do try to live my life in a way that hopefully can be pleasing to my maker because I know I'm going to meet Him one day, and He's not going to pat me on the back and talk about how many wins I had or how many Coach of the Year trophies we got or how much money I made.

All I know is, there's nothing we can't do at Clemson. I don't have to go somewhere else to win at the highest level, to recruit great players, to have great support - I really don't. I'm just really fortunate.

I ain't never going to apologize for a 21-point win over a state rival, ever.

I'm counting every silver lining I can get.