There needs to be a college football commissioner.
NICK SABANCollege football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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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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College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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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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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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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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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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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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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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.
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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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