When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
NICK SABANThere won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I don’t know if I’m different from everybody else, but there’s really only two things to me that are really, really important – recruiting good players in the program and developing those players once they get here.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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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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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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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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I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
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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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So 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.’
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You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
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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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I don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we win – I am. But there’s a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, ‘This is it – we conquered the world.’ We didn’t. We just won a game.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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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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We 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.
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I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
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