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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.

Nick Saban

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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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.
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I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
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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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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 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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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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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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I played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.
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Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
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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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I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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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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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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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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