When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
NICK SABANOne thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you’re married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
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There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.
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There needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.
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George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it’s not to keep trying to be the best. That’s not necessarily human nature.
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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.
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
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One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
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