That's what you don't see about coach Saban. He's a very funny guy.
To me, personally, my development to become a head coach will be much better working for Coach Saban than necessarily going somewhere else because you learn every day that you're in there.
Coach Saban's a great coach; he does it his way, and I have to do it my way. I have to cut my own cloth.
Anybody can do something one time. You have a great year because everything goes right. But can you maintain it and sustain it for a long period of time as Coach Carroll did and Coach Saban?
I've been very fortunate to be with Coach Saban this long, learned a lot of football from him. It's been kind of the key to my personal success out of the places that I've coached.
There's not a day goes by that I don't ask, What would Coach Saban do?
Coach Saban and I have a great relationship, regardless of what people may think.
I don't know how Coach Saban found me all the way in Hawaii from Alabama.
Three years under Saban changed me. He's the best coach in the world at what he does.
I think Nick Saban is the greatest college football coach in history over there in Tuscaloosa.
You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare.
Competition's always good, but the biggest thing I like about coach Saban is that he gives everybody the opportunity to play.
I'm tired of Nick Saban. I used to love Nick Saban. I don't know what he does on the recruiting side - he's the truth.
Our personalities are the not the same, Coach Saban and I. And I have the utmost respect for what he's done and what he's done for me and my family.
I'm not going to apologize for having a great team and a great program and a bunch of committed guys, and Coach Saban is not, either.
I mean, I just felt like Alabama fit me the best. What Coach Saban preaches about it all the time and what his players represent, I wanted to be a part of that.