I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
NICK SABANMediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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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I think center is a critical position.
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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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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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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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So when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’
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You can’t keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren’t always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.
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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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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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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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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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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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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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