So when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’
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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My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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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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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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I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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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 believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn’t play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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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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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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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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Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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