One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It’s like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It’s easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.
NICK SABANWhen 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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But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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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 don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we win – I am. But there’s a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, ‘This is it – we conquered the world.’ We didn’t. We just won a game.
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If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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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 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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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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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 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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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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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 don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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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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