I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
NICK SABANYou can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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 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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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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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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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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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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I’ll write an authorized book because there’s only one expert on my life, and guess who that is… me. And there won’t be any misinformation. There won’t be any false statements.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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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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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
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You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you’re married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
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