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Nick Saban

People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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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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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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If I say I like one person, that means everybody that voted for the other person doesn’t like me. So, why would I do that?
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You can’t keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren’t always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.
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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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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’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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I don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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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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I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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