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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More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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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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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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I loved it at LSU.
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When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
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I think center is a critical position.
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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.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don’t ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.
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I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month.
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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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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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You can’t keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren’t always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.
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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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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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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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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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The way I look at it is, if you don’t want somebody to know something, don’t say it. If you don’t want them to see you do something, don’t do it.
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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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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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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 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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