I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
NICK SABANI enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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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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I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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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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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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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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I don’t think I’m complicated at all. I’m not political, and I’m not trying to be diplomatic. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, and I don’t say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There’s no trying to fool somebody.
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I loved it at LSU.
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You can’t keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren’t always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.
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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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I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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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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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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