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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.

Nick Saban

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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Best Bonus Cruise Human Nature Necessarily Some Time Try
There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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Certain Taught Thing Through
I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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Can Do Just Player Thing Think Worst Yourself
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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Country Determine Hope Improve Leader Our People Qualify Safe
I think center is a critical position.
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Center Critical I Position Think
If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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Coach Teacher You Are
My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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Because Cook Get Grill Like Mad So Wife
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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Aight Awhile Excite Get Make Married Process Thing Work
Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team.
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Always Everybody Individual Make Now Say Team Win
You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
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Blame Can Contribute Guy Hold Other Say Yourself
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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Degree Failure Fear Guess Happen Know Motivate Need Some Thing Way
There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
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Analysis Anybody Deal Else Expert Hearsay Real
I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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Ant Give Kid never Opportunity Sicontinie
Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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Can Entertainer Great People Sing
My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.
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After Beach Country Goes Job Life Live Lot Mom Move People Time Week Wife
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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Accomplish Being Between Difference Happy People Think Want Win
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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Appreciation Country Environment Ever Game Get Grow Particular People Place Same Think
Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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Character Honesty Important Integrity Part
First of all, you’ve got to have a vision of ‘What kind of program do I want to have?’ Then you’ve got to have a plan to implement it. Then you’ve got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.
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All First Have Implement Kind Of Plan Program Vision Want
I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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Being Had Help Just Lot More Punitive Success Then
So when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’
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Always Game Lose Motivate Next So Think Want
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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College Country Football Game Kind Only Pro
One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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Always Bad One Player Tell Thing Three
Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.
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Do Does How Kind Lot People Play Same Secondary Stuff Term They What
I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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Out Spotlight Try
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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Different Else Everybody Good Important Know Only Really Recruit Thing Two
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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