Nick Saban Quotes:
All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
Nick Saban
College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
Nick Saban
Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive. You have the ball in your hand every time when you’re a quarterback. Whether you’re handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that’s extremely important.
Nick Saban
First 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.
Nick Saban
George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
Nick Saban
Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot. You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.
Nick Saban
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Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
Nick Saban
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I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose. So when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’
Nick Saban
I don’t believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
Nick Saban
I don’t ever want the players to relax in a game.
Nick Saban
I 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.
Nick Saban
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 Saban
I don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?
Nick Saban
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.
Nick Saban
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.
Nick Saban
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 Saban
I guess I’m motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don’t do things the way you need to do them to have success.
Nick Saban
I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
Nick Saban
I played so long ago, I don’t think anybody even knew you could transfer. I don’t think they knew anything about it.
Nick Saban
I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.
Nick Saban
I think there’s a certain pride people have in competition.
Nick Saban
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. Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it’s not to keep trying to be the best. That’s not necessarily human nature.
Nick Saban
I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.
Nick Saban
I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life. I 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.
Nick Saban
If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.
Nick Saban
I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
Nick Saban
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