I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
NICK SABANWhat 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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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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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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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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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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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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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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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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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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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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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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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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