I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
NICK SABANYou can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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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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College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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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.
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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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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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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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We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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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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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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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 think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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