It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.
NICK SABANPeople 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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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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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren’t always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.
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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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I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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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 played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.
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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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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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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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