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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.

Nick Saban

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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Game Go Importance Minimize Other Playoff Said Soon
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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Academically Always Been Best Give Goal Opportunity Personally Player Progress Successful
Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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Every Example God Golf Great Life Mean Metaphor Shot
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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Character Death Horrible Make People Person Scare What You
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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Always Game Lose Motivate Next So Think Want
Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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Character Honesty Important Integrity Part
I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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Anything Com Control Dot Else People Say
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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Ball Defense Gove Play Point Score Them Would
I loved it at LSU.
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At I Love
We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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Have Just People Person Responsible Rule Twitter Use Want
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.
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Appreciation Country Environment Ever Game Get Grow Particular People Place Same Think
Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it’s not to keep trying to be the best. That’s not necessarily human nature.
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Best Bonus Cruise Human Nature Necessarily Some Time Try
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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Analysis Anybody Deal Else Expert Hearsay Real
I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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Being Had Help Just Lot More Punitive Success Then
You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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