You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
NICK SABANIf you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
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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 never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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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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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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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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Whether 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.
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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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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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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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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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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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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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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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