I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
NICK SABANIf we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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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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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
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I played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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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Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.
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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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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 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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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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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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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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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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