When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
NICK SABANNothing 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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I feel like I’ve been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.
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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’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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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 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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You can’t keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren’t always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.
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I hope whoever our leader is will do all that he can do to make our country safe and improve the quality of life for a lot of the people we have in our country, and I don’t think I am qualified to determine who that should be.
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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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My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.
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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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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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I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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