Coach Nick Saban Quotes

Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness. ~ Nick Saban

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. ~ Nick Saban

The Beatles were bubblegum cards and Help at the Saturday morning cinema and toy plastic guitars and singing 'Yellow Submarine' at the top of my voice in the back row of the coach on school trips. They belong to me, not to me and Laura, or me and Charlie, or me and Alison Ashworth, and though they'll make me feel something, they won't make me feel anything bad. ~ Nick Hornby

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 grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball. ~ Nick Offerman

High achievers don't like mediocre people, mediocre people don't like high achievers. ~ Nick Saban

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. ~ Nick Saban

It's easier to win the National Championship than the SEC, ask Nick Saban. ~ Steve Spurrier

I don't care what you did yesterday. If you're happy with that, you have bigger problems. ~ Nick Saban

The number one thing on any team that will keep your players from being selfish is respect for the other players. ~ Nick Saban

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. ~ Nick Saban

We have got to use every opportunity to improve individually so we can improve collectively. ~ Nick Saban

A good process produces good results. ~ Nick Saban

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. ~ Nick Saban

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." ~ Nick Saban

Focus on the play like it has a history and a life of its own. ~ Nick Saban

The more one emphasizes winning, the less he or she is able to concentrate on what actually causes success. ~ Nick Saban

The roster that we have today may change tomorrow. It is what it is for right now. ~ Nick Saban

Be on time because it shows you care. ~ Nick Saban

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. ~ Nick Saban

The formula for success is every guy can make a difference for the entire team in whatever his role is. And to do it right, to get it right, is a critical factor in being successful. ~ Nick Saban

I don't think it's about who you play, I think it's about who you are. ~ Nick Saban

West," said Coach Jericho.
"That's me," said Will, raising his hand slightly.
"That's him," said Nick, pointing.
"That's helpful," said Jericho. ~ Mark Frost

I've never considered joining Twitter, nor do I know why anybody would. ~ Nick Saban

Je suis ce que je suis." – Death
"Is that a spell?" – Nick
"It's French, Nick. Means 'I am what I am.' Sheez, kid. Get educated. Read a book. I promise you it's not painful." – Death
"I would definitely argue that. Have you seen my summer reading list? It's nothing but girl books about them getting body parts and girl things I don't want to discuss in class with my female English teacher. Maybe in the boys' locker room and maybe with a coach, but not with a woman teacher in front of other girls who already won't go out with me. Or worse, they're about how bad all of us men reek and how we need to be taken out and shot 'cause we're an affront to all social and natural orders. Again – thanks, Teach. Give the girls even more reason to kick us down when we talk to one. Not like it's not hard enough to get up the nerve to ask one out. Can you say inappropriate content? And then they tell me my manga's bad. Riiight…Is it too much to ask that we have one book, just one, on the required reading list that says, 'Hey, girls. Guys are fun and we're okay. Really. We're not all mean psycho-killing, bloodsucking animals. Most of us are pretty darn decent, and if you'll just give us a chance, you'll find out we're not so bad.'" – Nick ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

The difference nowadays is that when I go on vacation I work some of the time rather than all of the time. ~ Nick Saban

I don't like to lose. I don't expect to lose. ~ 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

There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results. ~ Nick Saban

Our goal is to work against things we have not seen that we will see in the near future. ~ Nick Saban

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. ~ Nick Saban

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. ~ Nick Saban

I had just got back from skiing, and I was just hanging out, browsing the Internet, and I found some article that was a press release that said slope style was gonna be included in the Olympics. And the first thing I did was call up my coach Mike Hanley, and we were ecstatic. ~ Nick Goepper

Nick let loose an evil laugh. "It ended early. Stone cracked the coach's wee-belows with a badly thrown ball. I'm sure we'll all be running laps for hours tomorrow. But today ... Coach had to go ice himself."
Bubba and Mark sucked their breaths in sharply. "That'll ruin his weekend."
"Yeah, and then some," Caleb added. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment. ~ Nick Saban

Any team that does not win it's conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game ~ Nick Saban

What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can't get rid of the guy. He never goes away. ~ Nick Saban

Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis. ~ Nick Saban

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. ~ Nick Saban

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. ~ Nick Saban