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?
NICK SABANIt’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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First of all, you’ve got to have a vision of ‘What kind of program do I want to have?’ Then you’ve got to have a plan to implement it. Then you’ve got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.
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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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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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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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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 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 think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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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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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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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 always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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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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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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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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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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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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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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There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
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