You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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More Nick Saban Quotes
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Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
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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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I don’t know if I’m different from everybody else, but there’s really only two things to me that are really, really important – recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.
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My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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I guess I’m motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don’t do things the way you need to do them to have success.
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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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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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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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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 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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You can’t keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren’t always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.
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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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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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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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