I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
NICK SABANThere needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.
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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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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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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 don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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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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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 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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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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I loved it at LSU.
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I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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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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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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