When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
NICK SABANWhen I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
NICK SABANYou get excited about getting married, aight, but after you’re married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
NICK SABANIt’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.
NICK SABANSo when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
NICK SABANI don’t know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.
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 SABANOne thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
NICK SABANRex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.
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 SABANThere’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
NICK SABANI think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
NICK SABANSo when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’
NICK SABANOne thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
NICK SABANThere won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
NICK SABANWhen 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.
NICK SABANI’ll write an authorized book because there’s only one expert on my life, and guess who that is… me. And there won’t be any misinformation. There won’t be any false statements.
NICK SABAN