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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More Nick Saban Quotes
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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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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When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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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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I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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If I say I like one person, that means everybody that voted for the other person doesn’t like me. So, why would I do that?
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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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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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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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