I ain’t won but one. My team won the rest in spite of me.
When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover – you can’t do both.
That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
Don’t worry about making friends; don’t worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can’t hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can’t stand you.
You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.
If you don’t have discipline, you can’t have a successful program.
If you don’t learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.
Lee Roy was the best college linebacker – bar none. He would have made every tackle on every play if they had stayed in bounds.
Don’t give up. Reach down inside of you and you’ll find something left.
They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.
I don’t care how much talent a team has – if the boys don’t think tough, practice tough, and live tough, how they play tough on Saturday.
When you win, there’s glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there’s glory for none.
Winning isn’t imperative, but getting tougher in the fourth quarter is.
Football changes and so do people.
Being inside Tiger Stadium is like being on the inside of a drum.
In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I’ve had is winning, and that’s ridiculous.
At Alabama, our players don’t win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships.
All I know is, I don’t want to stop coaching, and I don’t want to stop winning, so we’re gonna break the record unless I die.
Every time a player goes out there, at least 20 people have some amount of influence on him. His mother has more influence than anyone. I know because I played, and I loved my mama.
Everybody’s got pretty good players now, more players than there’ve ever been. If you play poorly, you’re going to get beat.