I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
NICK SABANI think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don’t ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.
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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 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.
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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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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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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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You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
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I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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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.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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So when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’
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It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.
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