So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
NICK SABANWe 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you’re married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
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I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
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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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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?
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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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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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.
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You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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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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