When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
NICK SABANI want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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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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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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I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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We certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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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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People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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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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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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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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