If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
NICK SABANWe 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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As a coach, when it comes to football players, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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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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One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It’s like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It’s easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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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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Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.
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I think center is a critical position.
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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 don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
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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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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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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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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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