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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.

Nick Saban

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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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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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.
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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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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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Achiever High Like Mediocre People
You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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Beautiful Good Hole Opportunity Score
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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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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Coach Teacher You Are
So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
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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 always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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If I say I like one person, that means everybody that voted for the other person doesn’t like me. So, why would I do that?
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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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I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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Best Improve Live People Quality Want
My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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Because Cook Get Grill Like Mad So Wife
Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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Been Coach Involve More Organize People Person Probably With
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 feel like I’ve been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.
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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 believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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Believe Name Starter Team Until Win
Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
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Around Good Happen Midnight Nothing Thing Time Women
One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It’s like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It’s easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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Character Honesty Important Integrity Part
All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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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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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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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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