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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.

Nick Saban

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
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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Accept Chemistry Go Guy Happen Know Leadership Other Respond
I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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Alabama Coach Go
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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Character Death Horrible Make People Person Scare What You
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
I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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Football Just Misunderstood Not Pretty Think
I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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Certain Competition People Pride Think
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
Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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Every Example God Golf Great Life Mean Metaphor Shot
When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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Accomplish Decision Goal Make Something Time When Invest Your
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
It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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Come Dream Great Our Player See Some True
People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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Championship Improve Life People Quality Talk Won
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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Choose From Greatest Number One Position Probably Receiver
I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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Anything Com Control Dot Else People Say
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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Continous Element Football Game Involve Physical Play Rugby Soccer
Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
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Choose Community Down Go Good Grader Help Invest Ned School Service Somebody Time
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 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
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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Ball Get Guy Hand Information Out Play Process Quarterback Quickly Right When
Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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Dosposituon Get Good Need Once Stay Total
Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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Achiever High Like Mediocre People
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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Ball Every Extreme Hand Important Quarterback Somebody Think Time
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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Academically Always Been Best Give Goal Opportunity Personally Player Progress Successful
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
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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Championship Human Nature National Say Team Think Throughout Well Win Work

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