I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.
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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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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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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 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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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 certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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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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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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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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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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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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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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