Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
NICK SABANI 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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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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It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
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When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.
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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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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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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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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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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 don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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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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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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I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.
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If I say I like one person, that means everybody that voted for the other person doesn’t like me. So, why would I do that?
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