There needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.
NICK SABANI played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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The way I look at it is, if you don’t want somebody to know something, don’t say it. If you don’t want them to see you do something, don’t do it.
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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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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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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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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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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 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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I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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