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.
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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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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It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.
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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.
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We certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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I don’t Twitter. I don’t text for those very reasons. I don’t want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I’m not saying it’s good or bad; it kind of is what it is.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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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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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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I loved it at LSU.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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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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I don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
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Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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The way I look at it is, if you don’t want somebody to know something, don’t say it. If you don’t want them to see you do something, don’t do it.
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As a coach, when it comes to football players, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better.
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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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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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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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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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