I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.
NICK SABANWhen you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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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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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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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 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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We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
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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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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 just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.
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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 want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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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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