Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we’re out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It’s harder to find defensive players.
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 don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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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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You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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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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I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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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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Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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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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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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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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People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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