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" Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama. "
Nick Saban
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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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" 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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" I want what's best for people who want to improve the quality of their life. I hope whoever our leader is will do all that he can do to make our country safe and improve the quality of life for a lot of the people we have in our country, and I don't think I am qualified to determine who that should be. "
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" First of all, you've got to have a vision of 'What kind of program do I want to have?' Then you've got to have a plan to implement it. Then you've got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it. "
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" Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good. "
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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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Got
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" I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose? "
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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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Know
" 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
" 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. "
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Game
Integrity
" It's great to see our players get some of their dreams come true. "
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" When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what's important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better. "
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Time
You
Better
" I don't control what people say. I don't control what people put on dot-com or anything else. "
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Say
Control
Else
" You can't allow yourself to be vulnerable. "
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Yourself
Vulnerable
You
" When I talk about a successful program, define that. It's not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that. "
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Year
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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
Back
Deep
" I think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football. "
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Football
Think
" 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
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" 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? "
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" I played so long ago, I don't think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don't think they knew anything about it. "
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Anything
Think
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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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People
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" I want what's best for our country. I'm not sure I can figure that out. "
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Country
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" 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. "
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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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Success
Thinking
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" 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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Beautiful
Good
Opportunity
" 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
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" I don't believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team. "
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Wins
Team
Until
" 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. "
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Experience
Coach
Me
" 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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