"I try to stay out of the spotlight." — Nick Saban

I guess I'm motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don't do things the way you need to do them to have success.

When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that.

Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.

I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.

I don't think I'm complicated at all. I'm not political, and I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, and I don't say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There's no trying to fool somebody.

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 all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.

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.

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I try to stay out of the spotlight.