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.
NICK SABANI think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we’re out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It’s harder to find defensive players.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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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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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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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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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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You have the ball in your hand every time when you’re a quarterback. Whether you’re handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that’s extremely important.
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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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We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
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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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I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I’m not saying it’s good or bad; it kind of is what it is.
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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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