I think center is a critical position.
NICK SABANIt’s never OK to lose a game.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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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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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 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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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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George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
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Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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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 try to stay out of the spotlight.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.
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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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I don’t know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.
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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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You have the ball in your hand every time when you’re a quarterback. Whether you’re handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that’s extremely important.
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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 think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don’t ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.
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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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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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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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