I don’t think I’m complicated at all. I’m not political, and I’m not trying to be diplomatic. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, and I don’t say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There’s no trying to fool somebody.
NICK SABANMy wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.
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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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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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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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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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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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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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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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When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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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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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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