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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

We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
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Any Create Do Everybody Have How Really Standard Team Thing Want
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.
NICK SABAN

Choose From Greatest Number One Position Probably Receiver
When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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Ball Get Guy Hand Information Out Play Process Quarterback Quickly Right When
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
We certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.
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Adverse Anything Average Certainly Go Program Team Themselves University Want Way
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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Blame Can Contribute Guy Hold Other Say Yourself
I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
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Bowl Classic Game Helpful Home Player Playoff Think
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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Aight Awhile Excite Get Make Married Process Thing Work
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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Best Bonus Cruise Human Nature Necessarily Some Time 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
So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
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Damm Important Like Individual People Well When
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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Ball Every Extreme Hand Important Quarterback Somebody Think Time
You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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Allow Vulnerable Yourself
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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Another Everybody Like Mean One Person Say So Vote Why Do
I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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Can Do Just Player Thing Think Worst Yourself
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.
NICK SABAN

Ability Care Effect Emulate Enough Have Help People Somebody Want

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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