My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.
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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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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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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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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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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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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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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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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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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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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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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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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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Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team.
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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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