I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
NICK SABANI 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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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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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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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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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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But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
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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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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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I loved it at LSU.
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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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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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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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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.
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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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