Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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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You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
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We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
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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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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.
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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.
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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 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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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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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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