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Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.

Nick Saban

I don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we win – I am. But there’s a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, ‘This is it – we conquered the world.’ We didn’t. We just won a game.
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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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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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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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I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn’t play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.
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I don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
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I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
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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 always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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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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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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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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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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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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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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I don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?
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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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I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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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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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.
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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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Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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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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