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.
NICK SABANNow, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team.
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Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we’re out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It’s harder to find defensive players.
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One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It’s like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It’s easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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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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I don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?
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When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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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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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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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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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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You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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