Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
NICK SABANProbably 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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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 think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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I 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.
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You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
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I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.
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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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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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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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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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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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I don’t know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.
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