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.
NICK SABANSo 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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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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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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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 played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about 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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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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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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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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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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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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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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The way I look at it is, if you don’t want somebody to know something, don’t say it. If you don’t want them to see you do something, don’t do it.
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