"No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts."

"Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything that comes in second."

"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success."

"Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray."

"It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it."

"A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time."

"If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it."

"In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway."

"I ain't nothing but a winner."

"Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all."

"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 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."

"You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load."

"Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those."

"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."

"I feel bad about it. I've been telling them for 10 years that this had to happen, was going to happen. I think they can get jobs."

"I hope to get out before they start football next year."

"If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards."

"Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself."

"There's no substitute for guts."

"I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either."

"I think when it really hit me that I had to get out to keep the program from going down was after the Mississippi Southern game this year."

"I want to go home while it's quiet around there and get my mail out the first thing. Then I'll help them in recruiting if I can."

"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'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good."

"I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else."

"If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach."

"If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out."

"It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches."

"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."

"Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit."

"The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing."

"Players can be divided, roughly, into four types. Those who have ability and know it, those who have it and don't know it, those who don't have it and know it, and those who don't have it but don't know it."

"There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability."

"If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you."

"We believe there is nowhere else like this in Exeter and we are offering something different. We have so much here and because the different age groups are separated we can cater for their needs better."

"Bear Bryant's Three Rules for coaching: 1) Surround yourself with people who can't live without football. 2) Recognize winners. They come In all forms. 3) Have a plan for everything."

"It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference."

"He'll never change,"

"If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible."

"Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don't like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet."

"I'm very insecure. I'm human, just like anybody else."

"I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts."

"Will: I read your book last night. Sean: So you're the one."

"You can say what you want about me. You can yell at me with a video camera and be TMZ. You can follow me around and take pictures all you want. I don't care."

"Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life."

"Sometimes I wish I had never met you, because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there."

"I find forgiveness to be really healthy."

"I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways."

"When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks I probably wouldn't like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions."