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.
NICK SABANWhen you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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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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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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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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The way I look at it is, if you don’t want somebody to know something, don’t say it. If you don’t want them to see you do something, don’t do it.
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I don’t think I’m complicated at all. I’m not political, and I’m not trying to be diplomatic. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, and I don’t say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There’s no trying to fool somebody.
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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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So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
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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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My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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First of all, you’ve got to have a vision of ‘What kind of program do I want to have?’ Then you’ve got to have a plan to implement it. Then you’ve got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.
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I don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?
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It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.
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