It’s never OK to lose a game.
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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My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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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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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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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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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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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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I feel like I’ve been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.
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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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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 a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn’t play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.
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If I say I like one person, that means everybody that voted for the other person doesn’t like me. So, why would I do that?
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