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So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.

Nick Saban

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.
NICK SABAN

Ball Defense Gove Play Point Score Them Would
You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
NICK SABAN

Allow Vulnerable Yourself
George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
NICK SABAN

Celebrity Coach Coordinator Far People Person Responsibility Stage State
There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.
NICK SABAN

Care Emulate Good Leader Leadership Parts People Somebody Two Want
Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
NICK SABAN

Character Honesty Important Integrity Part
Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
NICK SABAN

Country Get Hard Our Player Pretty Scruntized
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.
NICK SABAN

Freem Country People Rather Regulate Regulation Responsible World
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.
NICK SABAN

Been Bless Coach Fell Great Have Like Mentor Person Some Start With Year
I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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Alabama Coach Go
I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
NICK SABAN

Best Country Figure Our Out Sure That Want
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.
NICK SABAN

Different Else Everybody Good Important Know Only Really Recruit Thing Two
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 SABAN

Accomplish Being Between Difference Happy People Think Want Win
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.
NICK SABAN

Behaviors Better Change Coach Come Football Make Player Try
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.
NICK SABAN

Authorize Book Expert Guess Misinformation Statement Write
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.
NICK SABAN

Do Does How Kind Lot People Play Same Secondary Stuff Term They What
Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
NICK SABAN

Achiever High Like Mediocre People

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