I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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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Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
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Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it’s not to keep trying to be the best. That’s not necessarily human nature.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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You have the ball in your hand every time when you’re a quarterback. Whether you’re handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that’s extremely important.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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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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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
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You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you’re married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
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I don’t think I’m complicated at all. I’m not political, and I’m not trying to be diplomatic. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, and I don’t say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There’s no trying to fool somebody.
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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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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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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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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
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Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.
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As a coach, when it comes to football players, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better.
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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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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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