Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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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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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 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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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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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 don’t Twitter. I don’t text for those very reasons. I don’t want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.
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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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But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
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When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.
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We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
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You can’t keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren’t always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.
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It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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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 think center is a critical position.
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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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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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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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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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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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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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I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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