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.
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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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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Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.
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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 don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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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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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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When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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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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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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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