When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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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’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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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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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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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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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 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 want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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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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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can’t get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
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So when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’
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My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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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 don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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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.
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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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Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
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