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So when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’

Nick Saban

We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
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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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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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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It’s like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It’s easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.
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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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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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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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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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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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So when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’

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