You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you’re married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
NICK SABANGeorge Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
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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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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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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 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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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 never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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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 always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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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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I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.
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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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So when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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