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.
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’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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First of all, you’ve got to have a vision of ‘What kind of program do I want to have?’ Then you’ve got to have a plan to implement it. Then you’ve got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.
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People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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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 guess I’m motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don’t do things the way you need to do them to have success.
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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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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.
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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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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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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 try to stay out of the spotlight.
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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.
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I don’t Twitter. I don’t text for those very reasons. I don’t want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.
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My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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