I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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 try to stay out of the spotlight.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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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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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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Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team.
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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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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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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.
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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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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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It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.
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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 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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