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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More Nick Saban Quotes
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Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it’s not to keep trying to be the best. That’s not necessarily human nature.
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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.
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You have the ball in your hand every time when you’re a quarterback. Whether you’re handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that’s extremely important.
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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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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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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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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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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.
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I loved it at LSU.
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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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I don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we win – I am. But there’s a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, ‘This is it – we conquered the world.’ We didn’t. We just won a game.
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I think center is a critical position.
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