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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.

Nick Saban

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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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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Allow Vulnerable Yourself
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 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 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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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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Certain Competition People Pride Think
Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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Achiever High Like Mediocre People
If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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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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Country Determine Hope Improve Leader Our People Qualify Safe
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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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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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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Ability Convert Everybody Know Performance Productive Really Somebody Talent
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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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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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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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 never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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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 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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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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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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Best Improve Live People Quality Want
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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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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