Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
NICK SABANWhether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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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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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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But 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.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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I don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?
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There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
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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.
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I played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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