There needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.
NICK SABANI 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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You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you’re married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
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I feel like I’ve been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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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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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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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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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
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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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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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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