Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
NICK SABANI 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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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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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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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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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 never OK to lose a game.
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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.
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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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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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