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.
NICK SABANOnce you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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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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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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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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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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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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No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
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I loved it at LSU.
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It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.
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I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
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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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There needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.
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I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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