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Nick Saban
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" You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, 'I must have contributed to this.' "
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" We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody's got to buy into that standard or you really can't have any team chemistry. "
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Want
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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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" Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama. "
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" You can't allow yourself to be vulnerable. "
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" If we'd had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami. "
Nick Saban
Miami
Still
Might
" 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. "
Nick Saban
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" 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. "
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Opportunity
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" I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose. So when you think about that, you're always motivated to, 'I don't want to lose the next game. I don't want to lose the next game.' "
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Win
" 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
" 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
" Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer. "
Nick Saban
Entertainer
Sing
Mick Jagger
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Success
Proud
People
" 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
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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. "
Nick Saban
Service
Time
Good
" 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
" I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that's not necessarily right. "
Nick Saban
Always
Think
Team
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Time
You
Better
" Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character. "
Nick Saban
Honesty
Integrity
Important
" 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
" When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy. "
Nick Saban
Play
Information
Process
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Change
People
Make
" 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
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Good
Positive
You
" If you're a coach, you're a teacher. "
Nick Saban
You
Teacher
Coach
" I've had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive. "
Nick Saban
Success
Being
Lot
" I think there's a certain pride people have in competition. "
Nick Saban
Pride
Think
Competition
" It's never OK to lose a game. "
Nick Saban
Lose
Game
OK
" Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is. "
Nick Saban
Kind
Competitor
Curry
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Matter
Great
Know