One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
NICK SABANYou wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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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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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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If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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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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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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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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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
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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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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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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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I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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