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.
NICK SABANOne of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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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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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 certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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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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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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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 don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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