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 SABANI 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
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I think center is a critical position.
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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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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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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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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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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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I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
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You have the ball in your hand every time when you’re a quarterback. Whether you’re handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that’s extremely important.
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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 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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You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
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