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" I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities. "
Nick Saban
Opportunities
Never
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" I loved it at LSU. "
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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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" I'm not going to be the Alabama coach. "
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" Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character. "
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" I think there's a certain pride people have in competition. "
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Think
Competition
" 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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Integrity
" I just want everybody to know that I'm opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody. "
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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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" I don't ever want the players to relax in a game. "
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" 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. "
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Text
Anything
" 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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Two
Me
" 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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Home
Think
" You wear your team out, and it's hard to get them back. "
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You
Your
Team
" 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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Team
Me
Home
" First of all, you've got to have a vision of 'What kind of program do I want to have?' Then you've got to have a plan to implement it. Then you've got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it. "
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Vision
You
Values
" 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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Appreciation
Game
Think
" I want what's best for our country. I'm not sure I can figure that out. "
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Sure
Country
I Can
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Away
Death
Him
" 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 Saban
Opportunity
Great
Challenges
" 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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Good
You
People
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Get
Need
Once
" I don't control what people say. I don't control what people put on dot-com or anything else. "
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Control
Else
" 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? "
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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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Service
Time
Good
" Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people. "
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Mediocre
Achievers
People
" 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. "
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Kind
Saying
Bad
" I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do. "
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You
I Think
Like
" When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more. "
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Success
Thinking
People
" I've had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive. "
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