No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
NICK SABANYou 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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George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
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First of all, you’ve got to have a vision of ‘What kind of program do I want to have?’ Then you’ve got to have a plan to implement it. Then you’ve got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.
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I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.
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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 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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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 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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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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