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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.

Nick Saban

We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
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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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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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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.
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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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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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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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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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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 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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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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I don’t Twitter. I don’t text for those very reasons. I don’t want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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