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 SABANThere needs to be a college football commissioner.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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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.
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I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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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.
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I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month.
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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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When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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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.
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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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