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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

If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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Be Country Had might People Still
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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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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Certainly Hate Like Lose Really Win
So when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’
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Always Game Lose Motivate Next So Think Want
One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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Coach Country Day Finish These
I don’t know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.
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I loved it at LSU.
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At I Love
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.
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Ball Chip Easiest Easy Golf One Pennies Pitch Shot Struggle Throw
It’s never OK to lose a game.
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Game IT Lose never OK One Liner
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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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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Championship Define Every Just National Nobody Program Successful Win Year
As a coach, when it comes to football players, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better.
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Behaviors Better Change Coach Come Football Make Player Try
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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Different Else Everybody Good Important Know Only Really Recruit Thing Two
I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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Being Had Help Just Lot More Punitive Success Then
But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
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Accept Chemistry Go Guy Happen Know Leadership Other Respond
Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it’s not to keep trying to be the best. That’s not necessarily human nature.
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Best Bonus Cruise Human Nature Necessarily Some Time Try

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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