I played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.
NICK SABANAll I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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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 control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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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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It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.
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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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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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When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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I’ll write an authorized book because there’s only one expert on my life, and guess who that is… me. And there won’t be any misinformation. There won’t be any false statements.
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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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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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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 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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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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