I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
NICK SABANI 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.
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So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
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I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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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.
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There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
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I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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I feel like I’ve been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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.
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People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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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.
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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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