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Nick Saban won seven national championships and nearly 300 football games during a coaching career that spanned a half century.
What he didn't (or couldn't) do was send his own emails and text messages. Even manageable tasks, like picking up a prescription from the pharmacy, eluded the long-time Alabama and LSU coach, who simply didn't have the time or patience to do it himself.
'The biggest change for me as a person is that I lived my whole life for the last 50 years being in a hurry,' Saban told ESPN about the early days of his retirement since stepping down as Crimson Tide coach earlier this year. 'It was, 'Hurry up to go here. Hurry up to go there. Don't be late for this meeting. You've got another meeting in an hour. What are you going to say to the staff? What are you going to say to the team?''
'I mean, it was just deadline after deadline after deadline. Even when I was driving to the lake to go on vacation, I'd be in a hurry, and for what? But that's just how you were built.'
To offer some guidelines about his new lifestyle, his wife Terry wrote him a letter containing the 'Ten Commandments
