Nick Saban

When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what's important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.

People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we've had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.

I played so long ago, I don't think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don't think they knew anything about it.

It's a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can't do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.

I don't Twitter. I don't text for those very reasons. I don't want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.

We don't have rules that people can't use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible. We certainly don't want them to do anything that's going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.

If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team, I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn't play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.

Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we're out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It's harder to find defensive players.

I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I'm not saying it's good or bad; it kind of is what it is.

Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.

You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you're married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.

I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.

The thing I like about college football so much is you can affect these guys a lot more when they are 18-22, 23 years old in terms of people and having a chance to be more successful. They are still a value type development, where you have a chance to help them mature a bit and help them be a little more successful in life.

If I say I like one person, that means everybody that voted for the other person doesn't like me. So, why would I do that?

It's been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it's personally, academically, or athletically.

My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It's not just the job. A lot of people don't get that. My life is here.

All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.

I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.

There's certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through. I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don't think I'd have a place to stay.

I think there's a certain pride people have in competition.