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.
NICK SABANHonesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.
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There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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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’ll write an authorized book because there’s only one expert on my life, and guess who that is… me. And there won’t be any misinformation. There won’t be any false statements.
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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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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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People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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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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If 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?
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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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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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I don’t know if I’m different from everybody else, but there’s really only two things to me that are really, really important – recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.
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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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