I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
NICK SABANYou wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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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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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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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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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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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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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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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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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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There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.
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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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