Nick Saban Quotes

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Nick Saban

Profession : Coach

Birth : October 31, 1951

I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.

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

Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.

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Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.

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I don't Twitter. I don't text for those very reasons. I don't want anything to be misinterpreted. I would encourage our guys not to do that.

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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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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 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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I don't ever want the players to relax in a game.

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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.'

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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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You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, 'I must have contributed to this.'

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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.

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I don't believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.

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I've had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.

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The way I look at it is, if you don't want somebody to know something, don't say it. If you don't want them to see you do something, don't do it.

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I think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football.

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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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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.

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My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It's not just the job. A lot of people don't get that. My life is here.

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