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?
NICK SABANIf 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?
NICK SABANOur players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
NICK SABANI don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
NICK SABANOnce you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
NICK SABANThere needs to be a college football commissioner.
NICK SABANI 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.
NICK SABANIf I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
NICK SABANI don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?
NICK SABANIf you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
NICK SABANRex 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.
NICK SABANSo 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.’
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.
NICK SABANGeorge Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
NICK SABANMy wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
NICK SABANI would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn’t play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.
NICK SABANI’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
NICK SABAN