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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More Nick Saban Quotes
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I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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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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You can’t keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren’t always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.
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You have the ball in your hand every time when you’re a quarterback. Whether you’re handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that’s extremely important.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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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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My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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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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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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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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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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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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