When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
NICK SABANMediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
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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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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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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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I don’t know if I’m different from everybody else, but there’s really only two things to me that are really, really important – recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.
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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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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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I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
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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.
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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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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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