When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
NICK SABANWhen you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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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’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 feel like I’ve been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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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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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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Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
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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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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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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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I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
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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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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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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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