"Hills are terrific for running."

"My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble."

"I want to run until I can't run."

"I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results."

"My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated."

"I believe 100 per cent in continued running after 40, and racing too, if one so desires."

"Always take the long term view and train and race smart, with a bit of caution."

"This sport is the sport to see what you are made of, so use those expert's advice, but be free to be your own champion runner, picking and choosing advice you enjoy and that works best for you."

"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now."

"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."

"In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is:hit the line hard."

"I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat."

"On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again."

"It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course."