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.
NICK SABANOnce you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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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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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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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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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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I guess I’m motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don’t do things the way you need to do them to have success.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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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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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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