When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
NICK SABANWe all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we’re out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It’s harder to find defensive players.
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I 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.
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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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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don’t ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.
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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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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.
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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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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 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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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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