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.
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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When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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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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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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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we 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 try to stay out of the spotlight.
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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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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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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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There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.
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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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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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I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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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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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 loved it at LSU.
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But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
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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 don’t Twitter. I don’t text for those very reasons. I don’t want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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I don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
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