When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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More Nick Saban Quotes
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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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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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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There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
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There needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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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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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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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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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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I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.
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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
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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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