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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.

Nick Saban

I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.
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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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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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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don’t ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.
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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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People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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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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I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month.
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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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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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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 always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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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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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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