I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
NICK SABANSoccer 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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What 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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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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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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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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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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When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it’s not to keep trying to be the best. That’s not necessarily human nature.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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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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