I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I’m not saying it’s good or bad; it kind of is what it is.
NICK SABANYou 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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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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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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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I think center is a critical position.
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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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 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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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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If I say I like one person, that means everybody that voted for the other person doesn’t like me. So, why would I do that?
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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 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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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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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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It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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Now, 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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