We certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.
NICK SABANWe certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.
NICK SABANYou get excited about getting married, aight, but after you’re married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
NICK SABANWe played in a number of these neutral site games.
NICK SABANIf I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
NICK SABANWe 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.
NICK SABANSo when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
NICK SABANI think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.
NICK SABANI certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
NICK SABANI think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.
NICK SABANPeople 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.
NICK SABANTeachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.
NICK SABANMediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
NICK SABANOne of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.
NICK SABANI 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 SABANI think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
NICK SABANWhen you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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