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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More Nick Saban Quotes
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
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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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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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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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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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Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team.
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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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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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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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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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What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can’t get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
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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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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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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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