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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.

Nick Saban

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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When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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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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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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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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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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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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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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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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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 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 never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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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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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 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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Country Determine Hope Improve Leader Our People Qualify Safe
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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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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One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It’s like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It’s easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.
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It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
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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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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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Coach Teacher You Are
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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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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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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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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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.

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