I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
NICK SABANIf I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
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I think center is a critical position.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
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The 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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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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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
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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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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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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 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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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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