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You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.

Nick Saban

I don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
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Access Anybody Entertain Give Information Me Sensation Tell Try
My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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Because Cook Get Grill Like Mad So Wife
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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Accept Chemistry Go Guy Happen Know Leadership Other Respond
One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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Always Bad One Player Tell Thing Three
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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Accomplish Being Between Difference Happy People Think Want Win
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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Everybody Game Good Guy Manager Negative Position Real Say Think
When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
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Ability Care Effect Emulate Enough Have Help People Somebody Want
Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
NICK SABAN

Can Entertainer Great People Sing
Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
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Around Good Happen Midnight Nothing Thing Time Women
There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.
NICK SABAN

Care Emulate Good Leader Leadership Parts People Somebody Two Want
You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
NICK SABAN

Blame Can Contribute Guy Hold Other Say Yourself
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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Ability Convert Everybody Know Performance Productive Really Somebody Talent
I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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Anything Com Control Dot Else People Say
When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
NICK SABAN

Championship Define Every Just National Nobody Program Successful Win Year
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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Coach Flexible Money More One Pay Pro Think Way
I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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Being Had Help Just Lot More Punitive Success Then

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