Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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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I feel like I’ve been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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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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People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.
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I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month.
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.
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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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Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.
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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
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