In Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl media sessions Tuesday and Wednesday, Alabama players were asked how much of Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban has worn off on them, how much they have become like their coach. Here are their answers:
Defensive lineman Jonathan Allen: Sometimes I catch myself talking to him, I'll go back home and be talking to family and keep on saying the things he'd say. I feel like in a lot of ways, I am like coach Saban. That's not a bad thing.
After being under Coach Saban for so long, you start to think like him. You see how he thinks. You see the success that it brings. So it’s kind of hard not to act like that and not to follow his lead and do the things he does and talk like he talks because it’s successful.
Offensive tackle Cam Robinson: It's funny, because in the other room, I was doing interviews. I was talking and the process just kept slipping out of my mouth. I wasn't necessarily trying to use it. I think that's just how coach Saban, he's groomed us so much and he's drilled into our mind, you know, the things that we need to know to be successful. We're probably just like mini-Sabans running around. Probably not as intense, but, I mean, he rubs off on us a lot.
Tight end O.J. Howard: I would say the same. I found myself the other day just back home for Christmas break, and our team, we have a saying, be where your feet are. And my mom was talking about something later on in the week. I was like, 'Mom, just be where your feet are. Take your time, take it one day at a time.
So I just take little sayings that we take as a team, and I find myself saying it back home because it’s really things you can use in your life every day.
Center Bradley Bozeman: Yeah, I actually catch myself all the time sounding like Coach. He's right, though. This is a process, and we have to buy into what he says and everything works out.
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