black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.

Nick Saban

If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
NICK SABAN

Athlete Best Coach High Offense Player Put School Team Would
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?
NICK SABAN

Another Everybody Like Mean One Person Say So Vote Why Do
It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.
NICK SABAN

Freem Country People Rather Regulate Regulation Responsible World
All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
NICK SABAN

All Control Destiny Do Know Own Play Term
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.
NICK SABAN

Accomplish Being Between Difference Happy People Think Want Win
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.
NICK SABAN

Been Bless Coach Fell Great Have Like Mentor Person Some Start With Year
No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
NICK SABAN

Adversity Back Bounce Matter No Overcome Team Thrown Way
It’s never OK to lose a game.
NICK SABAN

Game IT Lose never OK One Liner
One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
NICK SABAN

Always Bad One Player Tell Thing Three
Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
NICK SABAN

Every Example God Golf Great Life Mean Metaphor Shot
I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
NICK SABAN

Football Just Misunderstood Not Pretty Think
There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
NICK SABAN

Certain Taught Thing Through
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.
NICK SABAN

Adverse Anything Average Certainly Go Program Team Themselves University Want Way
I 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 SABAN

Degree Failure Fear Guess Happen Know Motivate Need Some Thing Way
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.
NICK SABAN

Different Else Everybody Good Important Know Only Really Recruit Thing Two
Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
NICK SABAN

Achiever High Like Mediocre People

I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Nick Saban Quotes