I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
NICK SABANBill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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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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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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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 think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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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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Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we’re out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It’s harder to find defensive players.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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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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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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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.
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I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
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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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