One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
NICK SABANFirst of all, you’ve got to have a vision of ‘What kind of program do I want to have?’ Then you’ve got to have a plan to implement it. Then you’ve got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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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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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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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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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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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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