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Nick Saban

When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
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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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George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
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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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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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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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People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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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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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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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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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 loved it at LSU.
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One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It’s like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It’s easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.
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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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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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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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There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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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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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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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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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 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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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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