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" Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I've ever been involved with. "
Nick Saban
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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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" What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can't get rid of the guy. He never goes away. "
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" Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good. "
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" When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what's important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better. "
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" I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don't ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers. "
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" Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is. "
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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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" If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team, 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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" If we'd had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami. "
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Miami
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Might
" 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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Good
Feel
Enough
" I don't believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team. "
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" You wear your team out, and it's hard to get them back. "
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" I don't ever want the players to relax in a game. "
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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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" I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears. "
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Face
Your
You
" 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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Change
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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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" I'm not going to be the Alabama coach. "
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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. You 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 think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football. "
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Misunderstood
Football
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" We played in a number of these neutral site games, 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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" I don't think I'm complicated at all. I'm not political, and I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, and I don't say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There's no trying to fool somebody. "
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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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" I've had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive. "
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" Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama. "
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Pretty
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Players
" 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. 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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College
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" There needs to be a college football commissioner. "
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College
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" I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities. "
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Opportunities
Never
Want
" When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that. "
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Service
Time
Good
" I think there's a certain pride people have in competition. "
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Pride
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