One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
NICK SABANPeople 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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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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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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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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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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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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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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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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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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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 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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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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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.
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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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