Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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More Nick Saban Quotes
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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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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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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So 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.’
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I don’t think I’m complicated at all. I’m not political, and I’m not trying to be diplomatic. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, and I don’t say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There’s no trying to fool somebody.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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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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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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When 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.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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