I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
NICK SABANI just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
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Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
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I’ll write an authorized book because there’s only one expert on my life, and guess who that is… me. And there won’t be any misinformation. There won’t be any false statements.
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George 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.
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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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First of all, you’ve got to have a vision of ‘What kind of program do I want to have?’ Then you’ve got to have a plan to implement it. Then you’ve got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.
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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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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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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.
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Teachers 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.
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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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