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.
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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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.
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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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We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
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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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I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I’m not saying it’s good or bad; it kind of is what it is.
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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
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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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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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I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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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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College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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