Nick Saban Alabama Football Quotes

I'm not going to be the Alabama coach. ~ Nick Saban

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

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

When you win, there's glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there's glory for none. ~ Bear Bryant

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

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

If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program. ~ Bear Bryant

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. ~ 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

One man doesn't make a team. It takes eleven. ~ Bear Bryant

I am in a two-stoplight town in the Alabama hill country, in the heart of the Bible Belt and Crimson Tide football mania, listening to an old-fashioned, heated argument between Cubans like the ones I've heard in Little Havana in Miami, but the moment very quickly loses its sense of strangeness and cultural dissonance. This is what America is like now
North America, I mean, the United States. The craziness of cubanos and mexicanos and guatemaltecos can find you just about anywhere ~ Hector Tobar

The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it. ~ Bear Bryant

There ought to be a special place in heaven for coaches' wives. ~ Bear Bryant

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. ~ Nick Saban

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

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

What if you wake up hung-over the following morning, not dead, but realizing that you had killed somebody? Even worse, what if you wake up in the morning realizing you destroyed the things you loved most in your life? When she regained consciousness in the hospital scared and alone, Kate realized the nightmare was a reality… her parents were dead… her soul-mate was in prison… her life would never be the same.

Through the eyes of many, Troy Trindle had it all… he was good-looking, popular, captain of the football team and dating the head cheerleader. What he lacked were the basic necessities; food, shelter and a family.

Kate and Troy's worlds collide when she moves to Alabama to resume training for a spot on the Olympic Gymnastics Team. ~ Wendi Farquharson Finn

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

I'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad. ~ Bear Bryant

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

I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it. ~ Bear Bryant

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

People who are role models for the principles and values of the organization, who buy in and understand the vision of what the organization is trying to accomplish, and have the personality to inspire other people to the vision. You know, that's what team chemistry and leadership is all about. ~ Nick Saban

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. ~ Nick Saban

To be a great player, you have to
affect the entire unit. ~ Nick Saban

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

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

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. ~ Nick Saban

I think everybody should take the attitude that we're working to be a champion, that we want to be a champion in everything that we do. Every choice, every decision, everything that we do every day, we want to be a champion. ~ 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

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you. ~ Paul Bryant

College football was a religion in Alabama, and Saturdays in the fall were holy days. ~ Lexi George

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

A good process produces good results. ~ Nick Saban

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

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

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

I'm sorry, Alabama fans. I'm from New York and didn't watch football growing up. ~ Dominique Easley

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

College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game. ~ Nick Saban

In life, you'll have your back up against the wall many times. You might as well get used to it. ~ Bear Bryant

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