I think center is a critical position.
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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 want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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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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I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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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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When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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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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