All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
NICK SABANI think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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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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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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