So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
NICK SABANWe 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
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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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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 you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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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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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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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 loved it at LSU.
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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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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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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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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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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