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.
NICK SABANIt’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.
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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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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I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month.
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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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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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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.
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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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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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I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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I feel like I’ve been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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