You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
NICK SABANNow, 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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If I say I like one person, that means everybody that voted for the other person doesn’t like me. So, why would I do that?
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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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There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
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Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.
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We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
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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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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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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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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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I hope whoever our leader is will do all that he can do to make our country safe and improve the quality of life for a lot of the people we have in our country, and I don’t think I am qualified to determine who that should be.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
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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 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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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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