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Football Quotes by Nick Saban

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Nick Saban stresses that a team must share a clear standard to build chemistry, and that changing player behavior is as important as winning games. He points out that focusing only on victory can hide the real reasons for success. He also mentions how college football lets coaches control more of their destiny than the pros.

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

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I don't ever want the players to relax in a game.

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If we'd had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.

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If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

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I don't like to lose. I don't expect to lose.

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It's never OK to lose a game.

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I think center is a critical position.

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There needs to be a college football commissioner.

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I think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football.

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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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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.

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The roster that we have today may change tomorrow. It is what it is for right now.

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The more one emphasizes winning, the less he or she is able to concentrate on what actually causes success.

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

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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that's not necessarily right.

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I don't believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.

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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…

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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,…

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I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games.…

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Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we're out there recruiting,…

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When I talk about a successful program, define that. It's not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do…

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In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could…

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The formula for success is every guy can make a difference for the entire team in whatever his role is. And to…

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It's about how the players play and compete. I know everybody is going to equate that on winning or losing, like they…

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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…

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There needs to be somebody that looks out for what's best for the game, not what's best for the Big 10 or…

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When you play against good people, that's when you focus your concentration. Your sense of urgency to be disciplined in your execution…

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I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well.…

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The thing I like about college football so much is you can affect these guys a lot more when they are 18-22,…

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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…

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I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether…

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I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges…

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To be a great player, you have to affect the entire unit.

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The number one thing on any team that will keep your players from being selfish is respect for the other players.

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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.

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It's been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it's personally, academically,…

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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…

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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…

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Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the…

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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…

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I've always been able to stay focused on trying to recruit good players and trying to develop those players.

I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that's not necessarily right.

I think there's a certain pride people have in competition.

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You can't allow yourself to be vulnerable.

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We're not going to talk about what we're going to accomplish, we're going to talk about how we're going to do it.

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