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College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.

Nick Saban

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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Challenge Different Enjoy Great Little Lot Nfl Opportunity Player Respect Team Thing
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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Celebrity Coach Coordinator Far People Person Responsibility Stage State
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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Damm Important Like Individual People Well When
I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.
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Dad Home House Kick Out Play Quit Stay Team Think Told
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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Adversity Back Bounce Matter No Overcome Team Thrown Way
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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Coach Flexible Money More One Pay Pro Think Way
One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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Always Bad One Player Tell Thing Three
We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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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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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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Country Get Hard Our Player Pretty Scruntized
I’ll write an authorized book because there’s only one expert on my life, and guess who that is… me. And there won’t be any misinformation. There won’t be any false statements.
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Authorize Book Expert Guess Misinformation Statement Write
You can’t keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren’t always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.
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All Bring Change Decision Especially Keep Made Personnel Team Time Together
I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don’t ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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College Commissioner Football Need
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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