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.
NICK SABANI never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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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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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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We 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.
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I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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The 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.
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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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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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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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.
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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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You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
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