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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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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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Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.
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College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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I think center is a critical position.
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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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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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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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So when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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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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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 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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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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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