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When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.

Nick Saban

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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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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Can Do Just Player Thing Think Worst Yourself
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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Aight Awhile Excite Get Make Married Process Thing Work
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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Care Emulate Good Leader Leadership Parts People Somebody Two Want
Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team.
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Always Everybody Individual Make Now Say Team Win
I don’t know if I’m different from everybody else, but there’s really only two things to me that are really, really important – recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.
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Different Else Everybody Good Important Know Only Really Recruit Thing Two
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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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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I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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Everybody Face Fear Lot Think Time
I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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Anything Com Control Dot Else People Say
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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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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Academically Always Been Best Give Goal Opportunity Personally Player Progress Successful
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 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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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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I think center is a critical position.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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Certainly Hate Like Lose Really Win
I don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we win – I am. But there’s a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, ‘This is it – we conquered the world.’ We didn’t. We just won a game.
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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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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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Certain Competition People Pride Think
I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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Always Assume Dame Every Game Great Intangible Nation Necessarily Notre People Right Tem Think
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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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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Believe Name Starter Team Until Win
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
I’ll write an authorized book because there’s only one expert on my life, and guess who that is… me. And there won’t be any misinformation. There won’t be any false statements.
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I guess I’m motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don’t do things the way you need to do them to have success.
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