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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More Nick Saban Quotes
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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I played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.
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I don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?
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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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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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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 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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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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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When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.
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