Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
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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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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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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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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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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I’ll write an authorized book because there’s only one expert on my life, and guess who that is… me. And there won’t be any misinformation. There won’t be any false statements.
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I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I’m not saying it’s good or bad; it kind of is what it is.
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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 want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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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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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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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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