If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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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When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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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 always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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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 believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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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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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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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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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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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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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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I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month.
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Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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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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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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You 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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As a coach, when it comes to football players, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them 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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I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
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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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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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