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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More Nick Saban Quotes
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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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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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Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.
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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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I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don’t ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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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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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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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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We certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.
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I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
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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 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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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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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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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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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
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When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
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