Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
NICK SABANYou 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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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 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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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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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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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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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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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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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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I don’t know if I’m different from everybody else, but there’s really only two things to me that are really, really important – recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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