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.
NICK SABANAs a coach, when it comes to football players, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
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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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I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
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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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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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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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Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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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.
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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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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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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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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
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