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?
NICK SABANWhether 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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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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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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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
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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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I hope whoever our leader is will do all that he can do to make our country safe and improve the quality of life for a lot of the people we have in our country, and I don’t think I am qualified to determine who that should be.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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I loved it at LSU.
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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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We 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.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.
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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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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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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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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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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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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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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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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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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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