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.
NICK SABANWe 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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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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Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it’s not to keep trying to be the best. That’s not necessarily human nature.
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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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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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Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
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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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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 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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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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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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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team.
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