It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
NICK SABANIt’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.
NICK SABANI try to stay out of the spotlight.
NICK SABANI don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
NICK SABANI would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.
NICK SABANYou can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’
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 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 SABANThere won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
NICK SABANI 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.
NICK SABANWhen people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.
NICK SABANOne thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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 SABANGeorge 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.
NICK SABANProbably 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.
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 SABANMediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
NICK SABAN