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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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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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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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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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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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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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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.
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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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It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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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 wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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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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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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Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we’re out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It’s harder to find defensive players.
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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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We certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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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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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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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
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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 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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