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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.

Nick Saban

I don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we win – I am. But there’s a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, ‘This is it – we conquered the world.’ We didn’t. We just won a game.
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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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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 try to stay out of the spotlight.
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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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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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You have the ball in your hand every time when you’re a quarterback. Whether you’re handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that’s extremely important.
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I guess I’m motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don’t do things the way you need to do them to have success.
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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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When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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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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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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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn’t play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.
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