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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

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.
NICK SABAN

Bowl Classic Game Helpful Home Player Playoff Think
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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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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Alabama Coach Go
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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Been Bogey Double Hole Know Made Many Matter Thing Well Yard
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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Game Go Importance Minimize Other Playoff Said Soon
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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Another Everybody Like Mean One Person Say So Vote Why Do
My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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Because Cook Get Grill Like Mad So Wife
I don’t Twitter. I don’t text for those very reasons. I don’t want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.
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Anything Misinterpreted Reason Text Those Twitter Want
There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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Certain Taught Thing Through
One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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Always Bad One Player Tell Thing Three
Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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Every Example God Golf Great Life Mean Metaphor Shot
You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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Allow Vulnerable Yourself
Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.
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Do Does How Kind Lot People Play Same Secondary Stuff Term They What
I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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Anything Com Control Dot Else People Say
We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
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All Anxiety Eventually Face Fear Insecurity Succesful Thing Want We
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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All First Have Implement Kind Of Plan Program Vision Want

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