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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.

Nick Saban

Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team.
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Always Everybody Individual Make Now Say Team Win
All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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All Control Destiny Do Know Own Play Term
Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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Character Honesty Important Integrity Part
When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.
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Have Important Kind More Routine System Think Time
I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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Always Assume Dame Every Game Great Intangible Nation Necessarily Notre People Right Tem Think
You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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Back Get Hard Out Team Them Were You
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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Dad Home House Kick Out Play Quit Stay Team Think Told
It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.
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Academically Always Been Best Give Goal Opportunity Personally Player Progress Successful
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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Ball Chip Easiest Easy Golf One Pennies Pitch Shot Struggle Throw
I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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Football Just Misunderstood Not Pretty Think
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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Analysis Anybody Deal Else Expert Hearsay Real
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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Any Create Do Everybody Have How Really Standard Team Thing Want
I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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Can Do Just Player Thing Think Worst Yourself
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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Choose Community Down Go Good Grader Help Invest Ned School Service Somebody Time
I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.
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Coach Flexible Money More One Pay Pro Think Way
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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Access Anybody Entertain Give Information Me Sensation Tell Try
I don’t know if I’m different from everybody else, but there’s really only two things to me that are really, really important – recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.
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Different Else Everybody Good Important Know Only Really Recruit Thing Two
I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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Alabama Coach Go
One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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Always Bad One Player Tell Thing Three
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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Degree Failure Fear Guess Happen Know Motivate Need Some Thing Way
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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Championship Define Every Just National Nobody Program Successful Win Year
Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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Competitor Kind People Person Special Term
If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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Coach Teacher You Are
College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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College Country Football Game Kind Only Pro
Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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Every Example God Golf Great Life Mean Metaphor Shot
You can’t keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren’t always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.
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All Bring Change Decision Especially Keep Made Personnel Team Time Together
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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Ability Care Effect Emulate Enough Have Help People Somebody Want

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