Nick Saban

“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 gets so mad at me because I don't like to cook on the grill.”

“Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.”

“You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It's hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football. You can't keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren't always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.”

“When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.”

“I've had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.”

“One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you're around guns unless you're going hunting, and you don't want to mess around with women that you don't know because a lot of times, bad things happen.”

“The way I look at it is, if you don't want somebody to know something, don't say it. If you don't want them to see you do something, don't do it.”

“I don't know if I'm different from everybody else, but there's really only two things to me that are really, really important - recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.”

“There needs to be a college football commissioner.”

“I try to stay out of the spotlight.”

“It's great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.”