I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
NICK SABANI always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
NICK SABANTeachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.
NICK SABANMediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
NICK SABANGeorge Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
NICK SABANThe way I look at it is, if you don’t want somebody to know something, don’t say it. If you don’t want them to see you do something, don’t do it.
NICK SABANNo matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
NICK SABANProbably 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.
NICK SABANSo when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’
NICK SABANMy wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
NICK SABANPeople 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.
NICK SABANYou can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
NICK SABANI guess I’m motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don’t do things the way you need to do them to have success.
NICK SABANI 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.
NICK SABANI’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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.
NICK SABANNothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
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