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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.

Nick Saban

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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Ago Anybody Anything Even Knew Long Play Think Transfer
We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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Game Neutral Number Play
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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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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Celebrity Coach Coordinator Far People Person Responsibility Stage State
What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can’t get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
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Character Death Horrible Make People Person Scare What You
I don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
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Access Anybody Entertain Give Information Me Sensation Tell Try
I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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Alabama Coach Go
My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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Because Cook Get Grill Like Mad So Wife
Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it’s not to keep trying to be the best. That’s not necessarily human nature.
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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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Always Ask Hate Like Lse Myself Question Wine
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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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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Accomplish Decision Goal Make Something Time When Invest Your
I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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Football Just Misunderstood Not Pretty Think
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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Championship Define Every Just National Nobody Program Successful Win Year
I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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Anybody Biology Everybody Know Oppose Unauthorized Want
Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
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Continous Element Football Game Involve Physical Play Rugby Soccer

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 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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