I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
NICK SABANOnce you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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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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If I say I like one person, that means everybody that voted for the other person doesn’t like me. So, why would I do that?
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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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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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
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You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
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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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it’s not to keep trying to be the best. That’s not necessarily human nature.
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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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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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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 great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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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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