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.
NICK SABANYou wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.
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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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We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
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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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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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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
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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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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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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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I loved it at LSU.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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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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I don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we win – I am. But there’s a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, ‘This is it – we conquered the world.’ We didn’t. We just won a game.
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I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your 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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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 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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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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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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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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As a coach, when it comes to football players, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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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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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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