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Nick Saban

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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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 call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
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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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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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Coach Teacher You Are
We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
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The way I look at it is, if you don’t want somebody to know something, don’t say it. If you don’t want them to see you do something, don’t do it.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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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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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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I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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Anything Com Control Dot Else People Say
There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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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 I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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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 think center is a critical position.
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Center Critical I Position Think
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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My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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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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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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Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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Country Get Hard Our Player Pretty Scruntized
There 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.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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College Commissioner Football Need
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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There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
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I guess I’m motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don’t do things the way you need to do them to have success.
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