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 SABANYou get excited about getting married, aight, but after you’re married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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One 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.
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I feel like I’ve been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.
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I’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.
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I don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
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But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
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I 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.
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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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