One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
NICK SABANI 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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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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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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I loved it at LSU.
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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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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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I don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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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 don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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First of all, you’ve got to have a vision of ‘What kind of program do I want to have?’ Then you’ve got to have a plan to implement it. Then you’ve got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.
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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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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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