So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
NICK SABANWhen you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.
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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 think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don’t ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.
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College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.
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When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.
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Now, 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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When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.
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There needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.
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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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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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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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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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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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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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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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