There needs to be a college football commissioner.
NICK SABANThere needs to be a college football commissioner.
NICK SABANIf you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
NICK SABANWhen you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
NICK SABANI don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
NICK SABANOne thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
NICK SABANWhat 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.
NICK SABANI 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.
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 SABANI think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
NICK SABANYou can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
NICK SABANI 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.
NICK SABANI don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
NICK SABANWhen you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
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 SABANI always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
NICK SABANI 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.
NICK SABAN