All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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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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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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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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One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It’s like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It’s easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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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 think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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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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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 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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