It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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More Nick Saban Quotes
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When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
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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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Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team.
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When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
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I loved it at LSU.
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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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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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I guess I’m motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don’t do things the way you need to do them to have success.
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What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can’t get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
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I feel like I’ve been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.
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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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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I think center is a critical position.
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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the 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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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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