I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
NICK SABANNow, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team.
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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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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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First of all, you’ve got to have a vision of ‘What kind of program do I want to have?’ Then you’ve got to have a plan to implement it. Then you’ve got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.
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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 people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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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 don’t know if I’m different from everybody else, but there’s really only two things to me that are really, really important – recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.
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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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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 have the ball in your hand every time when you’re a quarterback. Whether you’re handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that’s extremely important.
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I don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
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I don’t know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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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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