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" I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do. "
Nick Saban
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" There's two parts of leadership. You've got to be a good leader - you've got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people. But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That's the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen. "
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Leadership
Care
People
" 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. "
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Play
" I don't believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team. "
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Wins
Team
Until
" 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. "
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Goal
Our
Successful
" 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. "
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Always
Think
Team
" We don't have rules that people can't use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible. We certainly don't want them to do anything that's going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way. "
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Want
Going
People
" 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
" I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose? "
Nick Saban
You
Win
Always
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Win
Best
Nature
" I don't control what people say. I don't control what people put on dot-com or anything else. "
Nick Saban
Say
Control
Else
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Team
Me
Home
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Want
Got
Create
" I played so long ago, I don't think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don't think they knew anything about it. "
Nick Saban
Anything
Think
Transfer
" 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 don't ever want the players to relax in a game. "
Nick Saban
Want
Relax
Ever
" Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people. "
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Mediocre
Achievers
People
" There needs to be a college football commissioner. "
Nick Saban
College
Football
College Football
" I loved it at LSU. "
Nick Saban
Loved
" 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
" I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities. "
Nick Saban
Opportunities
Never
Want
" 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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Happy
World
Think
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Important
Two
Me
" 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
" 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
Me
Mind
Great
" 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
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