Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
NICK SABANOne thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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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 there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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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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My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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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.
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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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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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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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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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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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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
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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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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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