I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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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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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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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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It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.
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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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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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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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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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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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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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I don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?
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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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