We certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.
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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No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
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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.
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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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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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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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When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.
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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.
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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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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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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There needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.
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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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Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
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