If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
NICK SABANOnce you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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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 think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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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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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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Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
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You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn’t play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.
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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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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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We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
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I think center is a critical position.
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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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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