No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
NICK SABANWe create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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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.
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I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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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.
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People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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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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I don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?
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I think center is a critical position.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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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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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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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn’t play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.
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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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