I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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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 always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
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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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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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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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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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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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When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
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