I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.
NICK SABANI think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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As a coach, when it comes to football players, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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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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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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The way I look at it is, if you don’t want somebody to know something, don’t say it. If you don’t want them to see you do something, don’t do it.
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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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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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If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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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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I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
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