Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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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Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
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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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So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
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I don’t know if I’m different from everybody else, but there’s really only two things to me that are really, really important – recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.
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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 think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don’t ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.
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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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I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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As a coach, when it comes to football players, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better.
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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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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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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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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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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