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.
NICK SABANWhen you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
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Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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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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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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
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We certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.
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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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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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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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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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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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