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.
NICK SABANThere needs to be a college football commissioner.
More Nick Saban Quotes
-
-
Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team.
NICK SABAN -
When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
NICK SABAN -
There needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.
NICK SABAN -
Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
NICK SABAN -
I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
NICK SABAN -
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.
NICK SABAN -
Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
NICK SABAN -
I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
NICK SABAN -
I try to stay out of the spotlight.
NICK SABAN -
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.
NICK SABAN -
If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
NICK SABAN -
One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
NICK SABAN -
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.
NICK SABAN -
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.
NICK SABAN -
You can’t keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren’t always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.
NICK SABAN