I played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.
NICK SABANWhen 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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As a coach, when it comes to football players, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better.
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Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.
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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.
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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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You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
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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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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’ll write an authorized book because there’s only one expert on my life, and guess who that is… me. And there won’t be any misinformation. There won’t be any false statements.
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What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can’t get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
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So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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