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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.

Nick Saban

I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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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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Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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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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It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.
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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It’s like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It’s easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.
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I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team.
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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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The way I look at it is, if you don’t want somebody to know something, don’t say it. If you don’t want them to see you do something, don’t do it.
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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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