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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More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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I loved it at LSU.
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I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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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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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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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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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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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.’
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You can’t keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren’t always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.
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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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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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I don’t know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.
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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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