You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you’re married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
NICK SABANOne thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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I’ll write an authorized book because there’s only one expert on my life, and guess who that is… me. And there won’t be any misinformation. There won’t be any false statements.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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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I think center is a critical position.
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So when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’
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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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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.
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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 think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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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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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 wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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