Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
NICK SABANMediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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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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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.
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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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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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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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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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There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
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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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First of all, you’ve got to have a vision of ‘What kind of program do I want to have?’ Then you’ve got to have a plan to implement it. Then you’ve got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.
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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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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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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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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