By TexAgs Studios

Select quotes from SEC commissioner Mike Slive's address

"Welcome to the unofficial kickoff of the 2013 season. Privileged to kick it off. I'm amazed by our student-athletes.

"In football (in 2012), the SEC won its seventh straight national title and finished with six teams ranked in top ten ... a record. Sixty-three NFL Draft picks in 2013 is a record and the SEC won the Heisman for fourth time in six years.