Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
NICK SABANWhat makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can’t get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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I played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.
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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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Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we’re out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It’s harder to find defensive players.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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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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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.
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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 just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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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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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 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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There needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don’t ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.
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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.
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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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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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I loved it at LSU.
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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 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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