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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.

Nick Saban

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.
NICK SABAN

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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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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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Always Everybody Individual Make Now Say Team Win
I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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Best Country Figure Our Out Sure That Want
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 don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
NICK SABAN

Believe Name Starter Team Until Win
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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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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I 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.
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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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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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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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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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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Beautiful Good Hole Opportunity Score
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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I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
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