I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
NICK SABANAll I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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 anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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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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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 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 don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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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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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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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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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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