Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
NICK SABANAll I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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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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It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.
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There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.
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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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If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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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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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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My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.
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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can’t get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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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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People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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