I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
NICK SABANSo when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’
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Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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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The way I look at it is, if you don’t want somebody to know something, don’t say it. If you don’t want them to see you do something, don’t do it.
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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’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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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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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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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team.
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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 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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