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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.

Nick Saban

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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I think center is a critical position.
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I hope whoever our leader is will do all that he can do to make our country safe and improve the quality of life for a lot of the people we have in our country, and I don’t think I am qualified to determine who that should be.
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Country Determine Hope Improve Leader Our People Qualify Safe
So when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’
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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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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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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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Everybody Face Fear Lot Think Time
I don’t know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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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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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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Achiever High Like Mediocre People
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.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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Character Honesty Important Integrity Part
But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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Come Dream Great Our Player See Some True

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