No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
NICK SABANI think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
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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 try to stay out of the spotlight.
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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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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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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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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You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you’re married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
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We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
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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 said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I’m not saying it’s good or bad; it kind of is what it is.
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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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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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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’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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