Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.
NICK SABANI want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.
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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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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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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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You have the ball in your hand every time when you’re a quarterback. Whether you’re handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that’s extremely important.
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
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I don’t think I’m complicated at all. I’m not political, and I’m not trying to be diplomatic. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, and I don’t say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There’s no trying to fool somebody.
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It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.
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I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month.
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You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you’re married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
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We certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.
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If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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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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When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.
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I think center is a critical position.
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I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
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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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