Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
NICK SABANI 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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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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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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First of all, you’ve got to have a vision of ‘What kind of program do I want to have?’ Then you’ve got to have a plan to implement it. Then you’ve got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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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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 want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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We certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.
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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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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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