If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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I think center is a critical position.
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When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
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I’ll write an authorized book because there’s only one expert on my life, and guess who that is… me. And there won’t be any misinformation. There won’t be any false statements.
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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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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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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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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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First of all, you’ve got to have a vision of ‘What kind of program do I want to have?’ Then you’ve got to have a plan to implement it. Then you’ve got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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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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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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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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