I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
NICK SABANI don’t know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.
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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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There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.
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But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
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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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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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Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
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You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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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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I don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we win – I am. But there’s a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, ‘This is it – we conquered the world.’ We didn’t. We just won a game.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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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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