It’s never OK to lose a game.
NICK SABANYou 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don’t ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.
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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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I don’t know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.
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It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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First of all, you’ve got to have a vision of ‘What kind of program do I want to have?’ Then you’ve got to have a plan to implement it. Then you’ve got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.
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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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When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
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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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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we’re out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It’s harder to find defensive players.
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When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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