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.
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 would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn’t play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.
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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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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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My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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I don’t know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.
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You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
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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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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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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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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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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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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
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