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.
NICK SABANTalent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
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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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Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
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It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.
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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 don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?
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If I say I like one person, that means everybody that voted for the other person doesn’t like me. So, why would I do that?
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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I’ll write an authorized book because there’s only one expert on my life, and guess who that is… me. And there won’t be any misinformation. There won’t be any false statements.
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I feel like I’ve been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.
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