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.
NICK SABANThere needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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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 just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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What 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.
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You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
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No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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I don’t Twitter. I don’t text for those very reasons. I don’t want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.
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We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
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When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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I think center is a critical position.
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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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