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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?

Nick Saban

Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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Achiever High Like Mediocre People
I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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Even Game Player Relax Want
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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College Country Football Game Kind Only Pro
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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Ago Anybody Anything Even Knew Long Play Think Transfer
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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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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Behaviors Better Change Coach Come Football Make Player Try
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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Ability Convert Everybody Know Performance Productive Really Somebody Talent
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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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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Country Get Hard Our Player Pretty Scruntized
But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
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Accept Chemistry Go Guy Happen Know Leadership Other Respond
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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Championship Improve Life People Quality Talk Won
Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
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Continous Element Football Game Involve Physical Play Rugby Soccer
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
You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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Allow Vulnerable Yourself
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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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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