If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
NICK SABANIf 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?
More Nick Saban Quotes
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What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can’t get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
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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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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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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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As a coach, when it comes to football players, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better.
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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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I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn’t play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.
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I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
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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.
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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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I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month.
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People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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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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