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" 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
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" I try to stay out of the spotlight. "
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" 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. "
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" I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears. "
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Your
You
" 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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Want
Say
" 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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" 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. "
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Time
Good
" 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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People
Make
" I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself. "
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Yourself
Think
Worst
" You can't allow yourself to be vulnerable. "
Nick Saban
Yourself
Vulnerable
You
" 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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Vision
You
Values
" 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
Country
" I don't ever want the players to relax in a game. "
Nick Saban
Want
Relax
Ever
" You wear your team out, and it's hard to get them back. "
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You
Your
Team
" You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you're married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight. "
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Get
Getting Married
Process
" 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
Winning
Talk
" 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
" Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is. "
Nick Saban
Kind
Competitor
Curry
" If you're a coach, you're a teacher. "
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You
Teacher
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. "
Nick Saban
Matter
Great
Know
" 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
" My wife gets so mad at me because I don't like to cook on the grill. "
Nick Saban
Mad
Like
Cook
" 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 enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn't seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team. "
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Opportunity
Great
Challenges
" Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good. "
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Get
Need
Once
" 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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Important
Two
Me
" 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
" 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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Me
Why
Say
" It's never OK to lose a game. "
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Lose
Game
OK
" 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
" 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