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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.

Nick Saban

Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
NICK SABAN

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I don’t know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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I don’t think I’m complicated at all. I’m not political, and I’m not trying to be diplomatic. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, and I don’t say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There’s no trying to fool somebody.
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I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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Believe Name Starter Team Until Win
If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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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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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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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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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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College Commissioner Football Need
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 never OK to lose a game.
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I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I’m not saying it’s good or bad; it kind of is what it is.
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Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
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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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