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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.

Nick Saban

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 played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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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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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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We certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.
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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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It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.
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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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Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.
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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 can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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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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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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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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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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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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My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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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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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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