The way I look at it is, if you don’t want somebody to know something, don’t say it. If you don’t want them to see you do something, don’t do it.
NICK SABANGolf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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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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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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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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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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If I say I like one person, that means everybody that voted for the other person doesn’t like me. So, why would I do that?
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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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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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Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.
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When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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