Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
NICK SABANIf I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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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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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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I guess I’m motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don’t do things the way you need to do them to have success.
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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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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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There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
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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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There needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.
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Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
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I don’t Twitter. I don’t text for those very reasons. I don’t want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.
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Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
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We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
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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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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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