Link: Coach Saban's pregame speech prior to last season's Alabama-LSU game...

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	So I want everybody to think here for a second, how much does this game mean to you? 'Cause if it means something to you, you can't stand still. You understand? You play fast! You play strong! You go out there and dominate the man you're playing against, and you make his ... quit! That's our trademark! That's our M.O. as a team! That's what people know us as!

I'm prepared to run through a brick wall every time I watch this video, or see the above quote. It really has me fired up for November 7, 2009.

YouTube - Alabama vs LSU--Game 10

YouTube - Alabama vs LSU--Game 10

[mikes12]

Chills.

[Bear Disciple]

I get chills to, if he can fire the players up the way that fires me up, then I think LSU is in trouble!

[BamaFlum]

It is the SECW championship game. It is a chance to beat LSU for the first time since 1999 in Tuscaloosa. It keeps us in the SECC and MNC race. It is LSU. Yep, this game has a lot riding on it.

[bonehouse81]

	Quote:	mikes12
	Chills.

+1

[lafella]

awesome.

[CrimsonBleedRed]

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	"Most of you will live another fifty years or more. I hope it's seventy, but if it's fifty that's still a good life, and what happens today you'll have to live with the rest of the way. You can't get it back if you don't win. It's sixty minutes and over. The losers are the ones who say, 'Oh I wish I could play it again.' You can't play it again. Well, you're not really going to have to play sixty minutes. None of you. The longest play in a game is six and a half seconds. The shortest play is less than two seconds. That's barely a wink of the eye. You'll average five seconds a play. Five seconds of total effort, going all out, giving a hundred percent. You oughta be able to hold your hand in a fire that long. If you're lucky enough to play seventy plays, that amounts to about six minutes. Six minutes of your time. Out of fifty years, six minutes doesn't seem like much. But a loser will regret it the rest of his life. You've worked a long time for this. You've been playing since you were in the seventh grade. You go out there in front of all those people and don't give a hundred percent every play then you're cheating yourself, and your recruiters, and your parents, and your high school coach, and everybody whoever helped you. This is what you have been working toward. ... In any big game there are five or six or seven key plays that will decide the outcome. If you put out for five seconds on every play, you'll get your share of those key plays. You never know when they'll come, so you have to go all out every time. If you're reckless, and give that extra effort, and every play try a little harder, you'll see in the films on Monday that it was you who made those five or six plays that win. Play 'em jaw to jaw, and you'll win in the fourth quarter. I don't think this game is as big for us as it is for Tech. We're on a longer road. We've got a bigger one next week, and the week after. Because the next game is always more important if you're going to to the top. And that's where we're going."

Find this pregame speech here (sub GT with LSU and the message is still clear):
http://gtsports.blogspot.com/2003/11/bear-bryants-1974-pre-game-speech.html

[TommyMac]

It's now part of the lore of Bama football.

[OreBama]

That's awesome. I want more pregame Saban speeches.

[BAMAFEVER50]

thats the good stuff!

[ramajama22]

I work in an office environment... well we found this video, sent it to several Bama fans here, and before you know it, my manager has it blaring sans headphones at the end of my aisle. Classic. Chills every, single time! RTR!

[Nolcbear]

I love that video. So many times I've wanted to be a fly on the wall in those locker room situations...

You can be sure CNS will fire up our players just the same this year, and though the message may be similar, his words will cut deep like they're new. I'd love to hear it. But I guess we'll see it (on the field).

RTR

[Alasippi]

Unbelievable. One of the best vids ever. Thanks.

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