It’s never OK to lose a game.
NICK SABANEverybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
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It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.
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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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No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
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We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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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 don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
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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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