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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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" 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

Mind

Great

" Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama. "

" 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. "

" Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I've ever been involved with. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities. "

" My wife gets so mad at me because I don't like to cook on the grill. "

Nick Saban

Mad

Cook

" 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. "

" I loved it at LSU. "

Nick Saban

Loved

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You wear your team out, and it's hard to get them back. "

" You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It's hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football. You can't keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren't always made by you, especially who you bring to your team. "

" You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, 'I must have contributed to this.' "

" 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. "

" There needs to be a college football commissioner. "

" 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. "

" Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons. "

" I've had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive. "

" Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer. "

" When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy. "

" I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose? "

" 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. "

" I'm not going to be the Alabama coach. "

" 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. "

" If I say I like one person, that means everybody that voted for the other person doesn't like me. So, why would I do that? "

Nick Saban

Why

Say

" I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "