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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.

Nick Saban

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.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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I don’t think I’m complicated at all. I’m not political, and I’m not trying to be diplomatic. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, and I don’t say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There’s no trying to fool somebody.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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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 don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team.
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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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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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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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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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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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But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.

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