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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.

Nick Saban

When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
NICK SABAN

Championship Define Every Just National Nobody Program Successful Win Year
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.
NICK SABAN

Ability Care Effect Emulate Enough Have Help People Somebody Want
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.
NICK SABAN

Adverse Anything Average Certainly Go Program Team Themselves University Want Way
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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Been Bless Coach Fell Great Have Like Mentor Person Some Start With Year
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.
NICK SABAN

Bowl Classic Game Helpful Home Player Playoff Think
I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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Anybody Biology Everybody Know Oppose Unauthorized Want
I think center is a critical position.
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Center Critical I Position Think
So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
NICK SABAN

Damm Important Like Individual People Well When
One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
NICK SABAN

Champion One Resilient Team Thing
Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
NICK SABAN

Ability Convert Everybody Know Performance Productive Really Somebody Talent
I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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Anything Com Control Dot Else People Say
We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
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All Anxiety Eventually Face Fear Insecurity Succesful Thing Want We
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.
NICK SABAN

Freem Country People Rather Regulate Regulation Responsible World
I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
NICK SABAN

Believe Name Starter Team Until Win
What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can’t get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
NICK SABAN

Character Death Horrible Make People Person Scare What You
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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Best Bonus Cruise Human Nature Necessarily Some Time Try

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