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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.

Nick Saban

I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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Believe Name Starter Team Until Win
So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
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Damm Important Like Individual People Well When
We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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Game Neutral Number Play
What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can’t get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
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Character Death Horrible Make People Person Scare What You
When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.
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Have Important Kind More Routine System Think Time
There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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Certain Taught Thing Through
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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Care Emulate Good Leader Leadership Parts People Somebody Two Want
When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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Accomplish Decision Goal Make Something Time When Invest Your
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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Authorize Book Expert Guess Misinformation Statement Write
I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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Best Country Figure Our Out Sure That Want
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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Always Everybody Individual Make Now Say Team Win
If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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Coach Teacher You Are
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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Athlete Best Coach High Offense Player Put School Team Would
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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Adverse Anything Average Certainly Go Program Team Themselves University Want Way
Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.
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Always Better Certainty Grow Inspire Learn People Something Teacher Try
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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