If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
NICK SABANI think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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 always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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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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If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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I loved it at LSU.
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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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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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I think center is a critical position.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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There needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.
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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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I hope whoever our leader is will do all that he can do to make our country safe and improve the quality of life for a lot of the people we have in our country, and I don’t think I am qualified to determine who that should be.
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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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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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