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" I feel like I've been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind. "

Nick Saban

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" If we'd had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami. "

" You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, 'I must have contributed to this.' "

" I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month. Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it's not to keep trying to be the best. That's not necessarily human nature. "

" When I talk about a successful program, define that. It's not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that. "

" Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character. "

" One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There needs to be a college football commissioner. "

" Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama. "

" I don't control what people say. I don't control what people put on dot-com or anything else. "

" If you're a coach, you're a teacher. "

" 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. "

" You wear your team out, and it's hard to get them back. "

" I've had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive. "

" The thing I like about college football so much is you can affect these guys a lot more when they are 18-22, 23 years old in terms of people and having a chance to be more successful. They are still a value type development, where you have a chance to help them mature a bit and help them be a little more successful in life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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