When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
NICK SABANBut 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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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 know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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We certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
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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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My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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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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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 try to stay out of the spotlight.
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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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