We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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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If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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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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George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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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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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 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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My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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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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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 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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