I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
NICK SABANI 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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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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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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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
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I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I’m not saying it’s good or bad; it kind of is what it is.
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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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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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I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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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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When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
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I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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