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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. Mediocre people don't like high-achievers and high-achievers don't like mediocre people.

Nick Saban

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Nick Saban
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 31
American Football Player
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Fairmont
West Virginia
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