It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.
NICK SABANI always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.
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When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
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If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,
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You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.
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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 don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose.
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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 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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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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Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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