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.
NICK SABANThere’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.
NICK SABANWe don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
NICK SABANI 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 SABANAll I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
NICK SABANI think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
NICK SABANI’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
NICK SABANThere won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
NICK SABANI think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don’t ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.
NICK SABANOnce you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
NICK SABANGeorge Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
NICK SABANI 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.
NICK SABANI try to stay out of the spotlight.
NICK SABANOne of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It’s like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It’s easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.
NICK SABANWe create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
NICK SABANNothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
NICK SABANEverybody 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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