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" I think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football. "
Nick Saban
Misunderstood
Football
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" I've had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive. "
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" Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I've ever been involved with. "
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" 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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" I don't believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team. "
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" 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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" I think there's a certain pride people have in competition. "
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" My wife gets so mad at me because I don't like to cook on the grill. "
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" There needs to be a college football commissioner. "
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Football
College Football
" 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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Our
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" If you're a coach, you're a teacher. "
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" Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't ever want the players to relax in a game. "
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" I loved it at LSU. "
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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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" 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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" If we'd had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami. "
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Still
Might
" 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. "
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Good
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" I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do. "
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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 think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself. "
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" It's a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can't do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated. "
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" 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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" 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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