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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.

Nick Saban

Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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 think center is a critical position.
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You have the ball in your hand every time when you’re a quarterback. Whether you’re handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that’s extremely important.
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I’ll write an authorized book because there’s only one expert on my life, and guess who that is… me. And there won’t be any misinformation. There won’t be any false statements.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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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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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 you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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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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You can’t keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren’t always made by you, especially who you bring to your 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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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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I guess I’m motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don’t do things the way you need to do them to have success.
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If I say I like one person, that means everybody that voted for the other person doesn’t like me. So, why would I do that?
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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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