I don’t know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.
NICK SABANWhen you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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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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It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.
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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 you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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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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We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
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I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I’m not saying it’s good or bad; it kind of is what it is.
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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
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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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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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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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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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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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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 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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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.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you’re married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
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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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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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