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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.

Nick Saban

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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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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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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I think center is a critical position.
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I don’t Twitter. I don’t text for those very reasons. I don’t want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.
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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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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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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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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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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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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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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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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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you’re married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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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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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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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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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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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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I’ll write an authorized book because there’s only one expert on my life, and guess who that is… me. And there won’t be any misinformation. There won’t be any false statements.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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