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.
NICK SABANYou 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.
NICK SABANI think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
NICK SABANI 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 SABANI think center is a critical position.
NICK SABANBut the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
NICK SABANI think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don’t ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.
NICK SABANI think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
NICK SABANI 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 SABANTalent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
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 SABANI 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 SABANI just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
NICK SABANI 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 SABANSo when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
NICK SABANBill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
NICK SABANYou wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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