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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.

Nick Saban

I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don’t ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.
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Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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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 want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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Best Improve Live People Quality Want
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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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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Achiever High Like Mediocre People
When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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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.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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Game Neutral Number Play
Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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Coach Teacher You Are
You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
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Blame Can Contribute Guy Hold Other Say Yourself
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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Ability Convert Everybody Know Performance Productive Really Somebody Talent
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.
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Character Death Horrible Make People Person Scare What You

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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