I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
NICK SABANI 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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There needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.
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I loved it at LSU.
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I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.
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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.
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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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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn’t play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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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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