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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More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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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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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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I don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we win – I am. But there’s a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, ‘This is it – we conquered the world.’ We didn’t. We just won a game.
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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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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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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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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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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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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 don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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