You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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More Nick Saban Quotes
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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I think center is a critical position.
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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It’s like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It’s easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.
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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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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
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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 don’t Twitter. I don’t text for those very reasons. I don’t want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.
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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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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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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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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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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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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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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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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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Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it’s not to keep trying to be the best. That’s not necessarily human nature.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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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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