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.
NICK SABANIf you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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I think center is a critical position.
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I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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I don’t know if I’m different from everybody else, but there’s really only two things to me that are really, really important – recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.
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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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I loved it at LSU.
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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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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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The way I look at it is, if you don’t want somebody to know something, don’t say it. If you don’t want them to see you do something, don’t do it.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
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