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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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we’re out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It’s harder to find defensive players.
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I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month.
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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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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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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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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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George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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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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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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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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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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