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I played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.

Nick Saban

Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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Achiever High Like Mediocre People
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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Championship Define Every Just National Nobody Program Successful Win Year
I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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Football Just Misunderstood Not Pretty Think
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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I guess I’m motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don’t do things the way you need to do them to have success.
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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 don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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Even Game Player Relax Want
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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Choose From Greatest Number One Position Probably Receiver
If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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Athlete Best Coach High Offense Player Put School Team Would
When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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Out Spotlight Try
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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You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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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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All Bring Change Decision Especially Keep Made Personnel Team Time Together
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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