Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
NICK SABANThe 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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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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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 don’t think I’m complicated at all. I’m not political, and I’m not trying to be diplomatic. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, and I don’t say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There’s no trying to fool somebody.
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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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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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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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I don’t know if I’m different from everybody else, but there’s really only two things to me that are really, really important – recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.
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If I say I like one person, that means everybody that voted for the other person doesn’t like me. So, why would I do that?
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It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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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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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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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
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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 have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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I guess I’m motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don’t do things the way you need to do them to have success.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can’t get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
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I don’t know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.
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I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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I hope whoever our leader is will do all that he can do to make our country safe and improve the quality of life for a lot of the people we have in our country, and I don’t think I am qualified to determine who that should be.
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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we’re out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It’s harder to find defensive players.
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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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