There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.
NICK SABANOnce you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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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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I loved it at LSU.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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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 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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But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
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No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
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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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