I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
NICK SABANRex 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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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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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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When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.
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People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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I don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?
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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 control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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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.
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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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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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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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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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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When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.
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