Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
NICK SABANIf I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.
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When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
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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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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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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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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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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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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 that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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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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There needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.
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But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
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