I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
NICK SABANWhen 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
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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.
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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can’t get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
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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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It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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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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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 think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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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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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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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
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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.
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I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.
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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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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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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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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 played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.
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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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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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