Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.
NICK SABANI 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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So when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next 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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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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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 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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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.
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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?
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If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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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.
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
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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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We played in a number of these neutral site games.
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