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.
NICK SABANIt’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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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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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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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 don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it’s not to keep trying to be the best. That’s not necessarily human nature.
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We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
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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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You can’t keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren’t always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.
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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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I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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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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I don’t Twitter. I don’t text for those very reasons. I don’t want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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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