Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.
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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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When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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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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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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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 feel like I’ve been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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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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