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.
NICK SABANOne of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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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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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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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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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 think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It’s like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It’s easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.
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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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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
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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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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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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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I don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we win – I am. But there’s a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, ‘This is it – we conquered the world.’ We didn’t. We just won a game.
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