Nick Saban Quotes
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Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence.
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One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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Becoming a champion is not an easy process... It is done by focusing on what it takes to get there and not on getting there.
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The thing that concerns me the most is when I hear that people are making a lot of money a lot of ways except for the athletes, whether it's on the bowl games, the TV contracts, the conferences, the schools, the coaches, however you want to say it.
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When you play against good people, that's when you focus your concentration. Your sense of urgency to be disciplined in your execution all become more critical. Sometimes you get away with doing things not quite right against lesser competition, but when you play against real good people that's when it shows up.
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I think everybody makes mistakes. People do things that they regret.
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We have three kinds of guys on our team. We have guys that get it; they play good; they understand how to play winning football. We have some guys that are trying to get it, and they are working hard every day? We are supporting them, and we want the guys that have it to support them. Then we have some guys that don't get it and don't know that they don't get it. We are trying to replace them. We only have a couple left.
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To be a great player, you have to affect the entire unit.
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Any team that does not win it's conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game
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Focus on the play like it has a history and a life of its own.
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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. 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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The roster that we have today may change tomorrow. It is what it is for right now.
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I'm tired of hearing all this talk from people who don't understand the process of hard work-like little kids in the back seat asking 'Are we there yet?' Get where you're going 1 mile-marker at a time.
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A good process produces good results.
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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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In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year.
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When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. 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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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. Mediocre people don't like high-achievers and high-achievers don't like mediocre people.
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Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis.
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The more one emphasizes winning, the less he or she is able to concentrate on what actually causes success.
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Our goal is to work against things we have not seen that we will see in the near future.
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Mediocre people don't like high achievers and high achievers don't like mediocre people.
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Be all you can be in whatever you choose to do. The sky is the limit, so go for it. And do not create any self-imposed limitations.
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If you don't get result-oriented with the kids, you can focus on the things in the process that are important to them being successful.
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Teaching is the ability to inspire learning.
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The process is really what you have to do day in and day out to be successful, we try to define the standard that we want everybody to sort of work toward, adhere to, and do it on a consistent basis. And the things that I talked about before, being responsible for your own self-determination, having a positive attitude, having great work ethic, having discipline to be able to execute on a consistent basis, whatever it is you're trying to do, those are the things that we try to focus on, and we don't try to focus as much on the outcomes as we do on being all that you can be.
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It's not human nature to be great. It's human nature to survive, to be average and do what you have to do to get by. That is normal. When you have something good happen, it's the special people that can stay focused and keep paying attention to detail, working to get better and not being satisfied with what they have accomplished.
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The difference nowadays is that when I go on vacation I work some of the time rather than all of the time.
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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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