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" I think center is a critical position. "
Nick Saban
Position
Think
I Think
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" Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good. "
Nick Saban
Get
Need
Once
" 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. "
Nick Saban
You
Think
Important
" 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
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Want
Going
People
" You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, 'I must have contributed to this.' "
Nick Saban
Yourself
Blame
Look
" Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama. "
Nick Saban
Pretty
Get
Players
" It's great to see our players get some of their dreams come true. "
Nick Saban
True
See
Players
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Kind
Saying
Bad
" I want what's best for our country. I'm not sure I can figure that out. "
Nick Saban
Sure
Country
I Can
" I don't believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team. "
Nick Saban
Wins
Team
Until
" 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
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Goal
Our
Successful
" Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer. "
Nick Saban
Entertainer
Sing
Mick Jagger
" Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people. "
Nick Saban
Mediocre
Achievers
People
" 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
" We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure. "
Nick Saban
Want
Failure
Fear
" I don't ever want the players to relax in a game. "
Nick Saban
Want
Relax
Ever
" 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
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Success
Thinking
People
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Real
Book
My Life
" 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
Know
" I try to stay out of the spotlight. "
Nick Saban
Spotlight
Stay
Try
" People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we've had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times. "
Nick Saban
Good
Feel
Enough
" If you're a coach, you're a teacher. "
Nick Saban
You
Teacher
Coach
" I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities. "
Nick Saban
Opportunities
Never
Want
" Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is. "
Nick Saban
Kind
Competitor
Curry
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Greatest
Find
Position
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Hunting
Good
Bad
" 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
" 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. "
Nick Saban
Football
Game
Integrity