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.
NICK SABANI think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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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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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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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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I don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we win – I am. But there’s a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, ‘This is it – we conquered the world.’ We didn’t. We just won a game.
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It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.
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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.
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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
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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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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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I feel like I’ve been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.
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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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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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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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