I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.
NICK SABANI don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we win – I am. But there’s a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, ‘This is it – we conquered the world.’ We didn’t. We just won a game.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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Probably 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.
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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 think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.
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I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.
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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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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
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I think center is a critical position.
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I don’t think I’m complicated at all. I’m not political, and I’m not trying to be diplomatic. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, and I don’t say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There’s no trying to fool somebody.
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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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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
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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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I try to stay out of the spotlight.
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