I don’t think I’m complicated at all. I’m not political, and I’m not trying to be diplomatic. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, and I don’t say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There’s no trying to fool somebody.
NICK SABANSo 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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There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.
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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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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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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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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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I loved it at LSU.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
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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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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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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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I don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we win – I am. But there’s a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, ‘This is it – we conquered the world.’ We didn’t. We just won a game.
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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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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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