When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.
NICK SABANFirst of all, you’ve got to have a vision of ‘What kind of program do I want to have?’ Then you’ve got to have a plan to implement it. Then you’ve got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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I’ll write an authorized book because there’s only one expert on my life, and guess who that is… me. And there won’t be any misinformation. There won’t be any false statements.
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We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.
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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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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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We certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.
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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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Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
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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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Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
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I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
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We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.
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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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One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.
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I played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.
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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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