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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More Nick Saban Quotes
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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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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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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I don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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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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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.
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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 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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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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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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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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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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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