I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.
NICK SABANWhen you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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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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College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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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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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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I hope whoever our leader is will do all that he can do to make our country safe and improve the quality of life for a lot of the people we have in our country, and I don’t think I am qualified to determine who that should be.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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I don’t know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.
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When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.
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You can’t keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren’t always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.
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We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
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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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So 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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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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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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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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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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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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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I don’t know if I’m different from everybody else, but there’s really only two things to me that are really, really important – recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.
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I think center is a critical position.
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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
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Once 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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