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" I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears. "
Nick Saban
Face
Your
You
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" 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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Wife
" 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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Make
" 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. "
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" It's never OK to lose a game. "
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Lose
Game
OK
" Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer. "
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Sing
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" 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. "
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Overcome
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Deep
" 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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" One of these days when I'm finished coaching at Alabama, I'll write an authorized book because there's only one expert on my life, and guess who that is... me. And there won't be any misinformation. There won't be any false statements. There won't be any hearsay. There won't be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal. "
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Real
Book
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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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Good
Positive
You
" 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. "
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Kind
Play
Stuff
" Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character. "
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Honesty
Integrity
Important
" I loved it at LSU. "
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Loved
" 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
" I try to stay out of the spotlight. "
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Spotlight
Stay
Try
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Best
High School
Play
" 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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Game
Home
Think
" 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
Got
Create
" 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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Yourself
Blame
Look
" 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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College
Kind
Country
" 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
" Now, everybody always says there's no 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team. So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are. "
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You
Think
Important
" Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I've ever been involved with. "
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Organized
Involved
Most
" I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that's not necessarily right. "
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Always
Think
Team
" 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. "
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Look
Want
Say
" Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people. "
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Mediocre
Achievers
People
" 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
" I think there's a certain pride people have in competition. "
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Pride
Think
Competition
" One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you're around guns unless you're going hunting, and you don't want to mess around with women that you don't know because a lot of times, bad things happen. "
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Hunting
Good
Bad
" All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do. "
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Control
Well
Play
" 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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Away
Death
Him