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.
NICK SABANSo when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?
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You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you’re married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
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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 think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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As 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.
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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’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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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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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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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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I played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.
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I hope whoever our leader is will do all that he can do to make our country safe and improve the quality of life for a lot of the people we have in our country, and I don’t think I am qualified to determine who that should be.
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The way I look at it is, if you don’t want somebody to know something, don’t say it. If you don’t want them to see you do something, don’t do it.
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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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