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.
NICK SABANYou can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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There needs to be a college football commissioner.
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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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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.
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We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody’s got to buy into that standard or you really can’t have any team chemistry.
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I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
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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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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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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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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 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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George 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.
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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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