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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More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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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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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.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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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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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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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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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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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.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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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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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.
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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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