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.
NICK SABANEverybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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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 don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
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The way I look at it is, if you don’t want somebody to know something, don’t say it. If you don’t want them to see you do something, don’t do it.
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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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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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There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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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 try to stay out of the spotlight.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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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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