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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More Nick Saban Quotes
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Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team.
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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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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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But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we’re out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It’s harder to find defensive players.
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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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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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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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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 just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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