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" I don't try to sensationalize anybody. I'm not trying to entertain. I'm trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program. "
Nick Saban
Information
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Me
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" There's certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through. 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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Me
Home
" 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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" Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That's what we do, and we're proud of the success we've had here doing that, and it's something we'll certainly continue to do. "
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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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" 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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Time
Good
" Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I've ever been involved with. "
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Involved
Most
" One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It's like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It's easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental. "
Nick Saban
Pitching
Struggle
Easy
" I want what's best for our country. I'm not sure I can figure that out. "
Nick Saban
Sure
Country
I Can
" When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy. "
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Play
Information
Process
" It's been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it's personally, academically, or athletically. "
Nick Saban
Goal
Our
Successful
" There needs to be somebody that looks out for what's best for the game, not what's best for the Big 10 or what's best for the SEC or what's best for Jim Harbaugh, but what's best for the game of college football - the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it. "
Nick Saban
Football
Game
Integrity
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Experience
Coach
Me
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Look
Want
Say
" I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that's not necessarily right. "
Nick Saban
Always
Think
Team
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Kind
Saying
Bad
" You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you're married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight. "
Nick Saban
Get
Getting Married
Process
" Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot. You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score. "
Nick Saban
Beautiful
Good
Opportunity
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Want
Failure
Fear
" I want what's best for people who want to improve the quality of their life. 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. "
Nick Saban
Best
Hope
I Am
" I don't Twitter. I don't text for those very reasons. I don't want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that. "
Nick Saban
Twitter
Text
Anything
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Good
Feel
Enough
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Appreciation
Game
Think
" Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do. "
Nick Saban
Kind
Play
Stuff
" I don't know that there's any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we've ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get? "
Nick Saban
Say
Evidence
Know
" Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people. "
Nick Saban
Mediocre
Achievers
People
" Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we're out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It's harder to find defensive players. "
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Greatest
Find
Position
" When I talk about a successful program, define that. It's not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that. "
Nick Saban
Year
Winning
Talk
" 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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Good
Positive
You
" I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears. "
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Your
You
" I'm not going to be the Alabama coach. "
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Alabama
Going
Coach