I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
NICK SABANYou can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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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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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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I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn’t play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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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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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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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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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 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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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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