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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.

Nick Saban

Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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Country Get Hard Our Player Pretty Scruntized
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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Another Everybody Like Mean One Person Say So Vote Why Do
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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Country Determine Hope Improve Leader Our People Qualify Safe
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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Different Else Everybody Good Important Know Only Really Recruit Thing Two
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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Any Create Do Everybody Have How Really Standard Team Thing Want
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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First of all, you’ve got to have a vision of ‘What kind of program do I want to have?’ Then you’ve got to have a plan to implement it. Then you’ve got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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Even Game Player Relax Want
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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Behaviors Better Change Coach Come Football Make Player Try
One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It’s like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It’s easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.
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Ball Chip Easiest Easy Golf One Pennies Pitch Shot Struggle Throw
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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Challenge Different Enjoy Great Little Lot Nfl Opportunity Player Respect Team Thing
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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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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Authorize Book Expert Guess Misinformation Statement Write
I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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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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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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