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I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.

Nick Saban

You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
NICK SABAN

Blame Can Contribute Guy Hold Other Say Yourself
You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
NICK SABAN

Back Get Hard Out Team Them Were You
I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
NICK SABAN

Ant Give Kid never Opportunity Sicontinie
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.
NICK SABAN

Academically Always Been Best Give Goal Opportunity Personally Player Progress Successful
When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.
NICK SABAN

Have Important Kind More Routine System Think Time
Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
NICK SABAN

Every Example God Golf Great Life Mean Metaphor Shot
One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It’s like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It’s easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.
NICK SABAN

Ball Chip Easiest Easy Golf One Pennies Pitch Shot Struggle Throw
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.
NICK SABAN

Always Everybody Individual Make Now Say Team Win
I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
NICK SABAN

Can Do Just Player Thing Think Worst Yourself
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.
NICK SABAN

Celebrity Coach Coordinator Far People Person Responsibility Stage State
I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
NICK SABAN

Alabama Coach Go
There needs to be a college football commissioner.
NICK SABAN

College Commissioner Football Need
I don’t think I’m complicated at all. I’m not political, and I’m not trying to be diplomatic. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, and I don’t say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There’s no trying to fool somebody.
NICK SABAN

All At Complicated Diplomatic Political Think Try
My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
NICK SABAN

Because Cook Get Grill Like Mad So Wife
It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
NICK SABAN

Come Dream Great Our Player See Some True
You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you’re married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
NICK SABAN

Aight Awhile Excite Get Make Married Process Thing Work

I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.

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I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.

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