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.
NICK SABANOne thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.
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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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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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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.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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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 want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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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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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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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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