There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
NICK SABANYou 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’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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You can’t keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren’t always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.
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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 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 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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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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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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It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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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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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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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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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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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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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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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