I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
NICK SABANI 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
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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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My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.
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I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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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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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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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 don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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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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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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Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it’s not to keep trying to be the best. That’s not necessarily human nature.
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College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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I feel like I’ve been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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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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Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
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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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