When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
NICK SABANThere’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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I played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.
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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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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.
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I don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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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 if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.
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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 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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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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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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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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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.
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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 want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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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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Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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