Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
NICK SABANEverybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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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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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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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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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No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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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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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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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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We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
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