Nick Saban Quotes

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.

I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.

There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you’ll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.

You can’t get from A to Z by passing up B.

We’re not going to talk about what we’re going to accomplish, we’re going to talk about how we’re going to do it.

I think center is a critical position.

I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.

It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.

Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.

I loved it at LSU.

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

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.

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.

Be on time because it shows you care.

Eliminate the clutter and all the things that are going on outside and focus on the things that you can control with how you sort of go about and take care of your business. That’s something that’s ongoing, and it can never change.

I try to stay out of the spotlight.

Mediocre people hate high achievers, and high achievers hate mediocre people.