I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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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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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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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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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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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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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I loved it at LSU.
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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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I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don’t ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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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.
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I hope whoever our leader is will do all that he can do to make our country safe and improve the quality of life for a lot of the people we have in our country, and I don’t think I am qualified to determine who that should be.
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