Nick Saban
Nick Saban
Nicholas Lou Saban Jr. is an American football coach. He is the head football coach at the University of Alabama, a position he has held since the 2007 season. Saban previously served as head coach of the National Football League's Miami Dolphins and three other universities: Louisiana State University, Michigan State University, and the University of Toledo. His eight-year contract totaling US$32 million made him one of the highest paid football coaches, professional or collegiate, in the United States at the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth31 October 1951
CityFairmont, WV
CountryUnited States of America
It's about how the players play and compete. I know everybody is going to equate that on winning or losing, like they always do, but if we play hard and compete well in the game .. then I think we are building on something.
We have to compete within ourselves relative to the determination it takes to be successful.
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.
I asked my priest if it was a sin to play golf on Sunday. And he said, "It's a sin for you to play anytime."
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.
It doesn’t matter what you are ranked until the end.
I’ve never considered joining Twitter, nor do I know why anybody would.
Do what you do and be who you are.
You can't get from A to Z by passing up B.
To be a great player, you have to affect the entire unit.
Discipline is not punishment. Discipline is changing someone’s behavior.
Be on time because it shows you care.
The more one emphasizes winning, the less he or she is able to concentrate on what actually causes success.
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.