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.
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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It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.
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I think center is a critical position.
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We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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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.
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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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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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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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There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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So when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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