It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.
NICK SABANOne 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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We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
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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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No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
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When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
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College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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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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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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Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.
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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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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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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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