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.
NICK SABANNothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
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My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.
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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
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College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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I don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?
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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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If I say I like one person, that means everybody that voted for the other person doesn’t like me. So, why would I do that?
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We certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.
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When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.
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