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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.

Nick Saban

Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.
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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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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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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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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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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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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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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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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 think center is a critical position.
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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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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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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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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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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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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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