You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
NICK SABANYou have the ball in your hand every time when you’re a quarterback. Whether you’re handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that’s extremely important.
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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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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You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
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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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Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.
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I loved it at LSU.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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I don’t think I’m complicated at all. I’m not political, and I’m not trying to be diplomatic. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, and I don’t say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There’s no trying to fool somebody.
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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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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 guess I’m motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don’t do things the way you need to do them to have success.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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