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.
NICK SABANWhen 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.
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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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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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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When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.
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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 always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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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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I don’t know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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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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