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.
NICK SABANI 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.
More Nick Saban Quotes
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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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College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
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I 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.
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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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I don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
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Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.
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If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.
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You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.
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There needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.
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I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
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If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
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When you play quarterback, you have to process information quickly, get the ball out of your hand to the right guy.
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I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don’t ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.
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I 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.
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