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.
NICK SABANI 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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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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What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can’t get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
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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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My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.
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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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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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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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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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I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I’m not saying it’s good or bad; it kind of is what it is.
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There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.
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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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There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.
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As a coach, when it comes to football players, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better.
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