I 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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When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.
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You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you’re married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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I played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.
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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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I 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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I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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As a coach, when it comes to football players, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better.
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When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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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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I hope whoever our leader is will do all that he can do to make our country safe and improve the quality of life for a lot of the people we have in our country, and I don’t think I am qualified to determine who that should be.
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