George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don’t ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.
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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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I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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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 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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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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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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.
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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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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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First of all, you’ve got to have a vision of ‘What kind of program do I want to have?’ Then you’ve got to have a plan to implement it. Then you’ve got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.
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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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When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.
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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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