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.
NICK SABANI enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.
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When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
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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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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
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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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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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So when you act like the individual is not important, well, it is damn important who these people are and what they are.
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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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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 always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?
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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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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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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
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