Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
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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.
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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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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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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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.
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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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You can’t keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren’t always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.
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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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I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I’m not saying it’s good or bad; it kind of is what it is.
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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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It’s never OK to lose a game.
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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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