There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.
NICK SABANI don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I’m not saying it’s good or bad; it kind of is what it is.
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I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
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I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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If I say I like one person, that means everybody that voted for the other person doesn’t like me. So, why would I do that?
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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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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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My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.
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I guess I’m motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don’t do things the way you need to do them to have success.
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One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It’s like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It’s easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.
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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.
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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
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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 would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn’t play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.
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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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I don’t Twitter. I don’t text for those very reasons. I don’t want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.
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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
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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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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
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You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
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