Nick Saban Quotes

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Nick Saban

Profession : Coach

Birth : October 31, 1951

I want what's best for our country. I'm not sure I can figure that out.

Nick Saban

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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There needs to be a college football commissioner.

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I loved it at LSU.

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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 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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I just want everybody to know that I'm opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.

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

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Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That's what we do, and we're proud of the success we've had here doing that, and it's something we'll certainly continue to do.

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

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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 he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.

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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.

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

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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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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.

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

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I think center is a critical position.

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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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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.

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