I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
NICK SABANYou can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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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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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.
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Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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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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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
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There needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.
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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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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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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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