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.
NICK SABANI certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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Rex 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.
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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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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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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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We certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.
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The way I look at it is, if you don’t want somebody to know something, don’t say it. If you don’t want them to see you do something, don’t do it.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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