I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
NICK SABANWhen you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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As a coach, when it comes to football players, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better.
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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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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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You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you’re married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
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When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
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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 know if I’m different from everybody else, but there’s really only two things to me that are really, really important – recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.
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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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One of these days when I’m finished coaching 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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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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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 were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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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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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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