I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
NICK SABANI 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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It’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.
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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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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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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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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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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 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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Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
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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 certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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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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