Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
NICK SABANWe 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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When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.
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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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As a coach, when it comes to football players, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better.
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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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Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it’s not to keep trying to be the best. That’s not necessarily human nature.
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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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There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.
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I 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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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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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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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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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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