The way I look at it is, if you don’t want somebody to know something, don’t say it. If you don’t want them to see you do something, don’t do it.
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More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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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 think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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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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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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Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
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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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I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I’m not saying it’s good or bad; it kind of is what it is.
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There needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.
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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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It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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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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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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First of all, you’ve got to have a vision of ‘What kind of program do I want to have?’ Then you’ve got to have a plan to implement it. Then you’ve got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.
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It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
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There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.
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