We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
NICK SABANI think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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First of all, you’ve got to have a vision of ‘What kind of program do I want to have?’ Then you’ve got to have a plan to implement it. Then you’ve got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.
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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it’s not to keep trying to be the best. That’s not necessarily human nature.
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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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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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When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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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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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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I don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
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College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
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I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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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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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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