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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.
Nick SabanNick Saban I 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 SabanNick Saban I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
Nick SabanNick Saban I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
Nick SabanNick Saban I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
Nick SabanNick Saban If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
Nick SabanNick Saban I 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 SabanNick Saban Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
Nick SabanNick Saban My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.
Nick SabanNick Saban Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
Nick SabanNick Saban 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.
Nick SabanNick Saban You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
Nick SabanNick Saban I don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
Nick SabanNick Saban One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It’s like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It’s easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.
Nick SabanNick Saban 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.
Nick SabanNick Saban 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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