I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
NICK SABANRex 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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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 want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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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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Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team.
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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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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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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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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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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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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 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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College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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I don’t think I’m complicated at all. I’m not political, and I’m not trying to be diplomatic. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, and I don’t say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There’s no trying to fool somebody.
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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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