Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
NICK SABANPeople 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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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the 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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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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I hope whoever our leader is will do all that he can do to make our country safe and improve the quality of life for a lot of the people we have in our country, and I don’t think I am qualified to determine who that should be.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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