I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
NICK SABANYou can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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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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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.
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I don’t know if I’m different from everybody else, but there’s really only two things to me that are really, really important – recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.
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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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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 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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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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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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I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
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You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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