I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
NICK SABANThe 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
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It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.
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I played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.
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People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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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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Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we’re out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It’s harder to find defensive players.
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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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When 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.
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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 can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
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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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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it’s not to keep trying to be the best. That’s not necessarily human nature.
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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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Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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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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My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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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 just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I’m not saying it’s good or bad; it kind of is what it is.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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