I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
NICK SABANTalent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard 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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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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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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So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month.
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I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
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I don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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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’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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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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You have the ball in your hand every time when you’re a quarterback. Whether you’re handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that’s extremely important.
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