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.
NICK SABANAs a coach, when it comes to football players, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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I loved it at LSU.
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Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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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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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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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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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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Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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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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