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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

I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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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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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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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
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I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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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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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.
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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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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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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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I don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we win – I am. But there’s a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, ‘This is it – we conquered the world.’ We didn’t. We just won a game.
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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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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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You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.
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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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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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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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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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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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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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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