So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
NICK SABANSteph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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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 played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.
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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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I don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we win – I am. But there’s a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, ‘This is it – we conquered the world.’ We didn’t. We just won a game.
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I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I’m not saying it’s good or bad; it kind of is what it is.
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I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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I don’t Twitter. I don’t text for those very reasons. I don’t want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.
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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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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 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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I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn’t play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.
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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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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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