Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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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I feel like I’ve been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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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 were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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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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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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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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Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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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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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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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