You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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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The way I look at it is, if you don’t want somebody to know something, don’t say it. If you don’t want them to see you do something, don’t do it.
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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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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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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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It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.
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I loved it at LSU.
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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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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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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 don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we win – I am. But there’s a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, ‘This is it – we conquered the world.’ We didn’t. We just won a game.
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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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I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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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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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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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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If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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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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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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I don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
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I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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