It’s never OK to lose a game.
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More Nick Saban Quotes
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I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month.
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I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
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So when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’
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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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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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I’ll write an authorized book because there’s only one expert on my life, and guess who that is… me. And there won’t be any misinformation. There won’t be any false statements.
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We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
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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 don’t think I’m complicated at all. I’m not political, and I’m not trying to be diplomatic. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, and I don’t say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There’s no trying to fool somebody.
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No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
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There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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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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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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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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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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Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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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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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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