I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
NICK SABANI think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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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Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it’s not to keep trying to be the best. That’s not necessarily human nature.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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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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You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.
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One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It’s like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It’s easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.
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I don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
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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 don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.
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Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but there is an ‘I’ in win, because the individuals make the team what it is, and how they think and what they do is important to the team.
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