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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More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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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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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 don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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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 think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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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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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 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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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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I loved it at LSU.
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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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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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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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I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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I think center is a critical position.
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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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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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