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I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis.
Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game.
Any team that does not win it's conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game
I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that's not necessarily right.
The difference nowadays is that when I go on vacation I work some of the time rather than all of the time.
The more one emphasizes winning, the less he or she is able to concentrate on what actually causes success.
I asked my priest if it was a sin to play golf on Sunday. And he said, "It's a sin for you to play anytime."
I've always been able to stay focused on trying to recruit good players and trying to develop those players.
We're not going to talk about what we're going to accomplish, we're going to talk about how we're going to do it.
The number one thing on any team that will keep your players from being selfish is respect for the other players.
College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, 'I must have contributed to this.'
When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
I played so long ago, I don't think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don't think they knew anything about it.
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.
If I say I like one person, that means everybody that voted for the other person doesn't like me. So, why would I do that?
Becoming a champion is not an easy process... It is done by focusing on what it takes to get there and not on getting there.
You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you're married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
Be all you can be in whatever you choose to do. The sky is the limit, so go for it. And do not create any self-imposed limitations.
If you don't get result-oriented with the kids, you can focus on the things in the process that are important to them being successful.
What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can't get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment.
When I talk about a successful program, define that. It's not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
I don't Twitter. I don't text for those very reasons. I don't want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.
We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody's got to buy into that standard or you really can't have any team chemistry.
George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence.
I don't try to sensationalize anybody. I'm not trying to entertain. I'm trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
It's been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it's personally, academically, or athletically.
Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot. You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness.
I don't know how many times I've been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn't matter. It's only the next shot that matters.
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.
It's a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can't do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.
One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year.
We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
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.
The formula for success is every guy can make a difference for the entire team in whatever his role is. And to do it right, to get it right, is a critical factor in being successful.
I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose. 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.'
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.
One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It's like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It's easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.
There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.
I'm tired of hearing all this talk from people who don't understand the process of hard work-like little kids in the back seat asking 'Are we there yet?' Get where you're going 1 mile-marker at a time.