I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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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 certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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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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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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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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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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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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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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Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it’s not to keep trying to be the best. That’s not necessarily human nature.
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I don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?
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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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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 think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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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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