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.
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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Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
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I hope whoever our leader is will do all that he can do to make our country safe and improve the quality of life for a lot of the people we have in our country, and I don’t think I am qualified to determine who that should be.
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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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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If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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I don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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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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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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There needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.
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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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I feel like I’ve been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.
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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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