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.
NICK SABANGeorge 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins 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 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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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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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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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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What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can’t get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
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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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I don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
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I loved it at LSU.
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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I don’t know if I’m different from everybody else, but there’s really only two things to me that are really, really important – recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.
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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 think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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