There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
NICK SABANGolf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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It’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.
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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.
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I don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we win – I am. But there’s a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, ‘This is it – we conquered the world.’ We didn’t. We just won a game.
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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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.
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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.
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I don’t Twitter. I don’t text for those very reasons. I don’t want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.
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Everybody 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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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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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the 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 I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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