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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More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.
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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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I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I’m not saying it’s good or bad; it kind of is what it is.
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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
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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 think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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There needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.
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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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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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Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
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