You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.
NICK SABANI think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.
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People 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.
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I hope whoever our leader is will do all that he can do to make our country safe and improve the quality of life for a lot of the people we have in our country, and I don’t think I am qualified to determine who that should be.
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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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If I say I like one person, that means everybody that voted for the other person doesn’t like me. So, why would I do that?
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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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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 want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.
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No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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The way I look at it is, if you don’t want somebody to know something, don’t say it. If you don’t want them to see you do something, don’t do it.
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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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I don’t know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.
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I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.
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