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Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team.
Nick SabanNick Saban Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
Nick SabanNick Saban 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.
Nick SabanNick Saban College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
Nick SabanNick Saban First of all, you’ve got to have a vision of ‘What kind of program do I want to have?’ Then you’ve got to have a plan to implement it. Then you’ve got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.
Nick SabanNick Saban 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.
Nick SabanNick Saban I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
Nick SabanNick Saban 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 SabanNick Saban I think center is a critical position.
Nick SabanNick Saban I hope whoever our leader is will do all that he can do to make our country safe and improve the quality of life for a lot of the people we have in our country, and I don’t think I am qualified to determine who that should be.
Nick SabanNick Saban My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
Nick SabanNick Saban 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 SabanNick Saban Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
Nick SabanNick Saban 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.
Nick SabanNick Saban I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
Nick SabanNick Saban I loved it at LSU.
Nick SabanNick Saban
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