I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
NICK SABANThere won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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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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We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
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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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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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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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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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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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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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We certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team.
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I played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.
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I’ll write an authorized book because there’s only one expert on my life, and guess who that is… me. And there won’t be any misinformation. There won’t be any false statements.
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I don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
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When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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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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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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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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