One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
NICK SABANOne thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
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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 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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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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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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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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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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I don’t know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.
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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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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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