Top 150 Quotes & Sayings by Nick Saban - Page 3

Teaching is the ability to inspire learning.

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 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.

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.

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

I think everybody makes mistakes. People do things that they regret.

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.

I don't control what people put on dot-com or anything else. So I'm just telling you there's no significance, in my opinion, about this, about me, about any interest that I have in anything other than being the coach here.

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."

Mediocre people don't like high achievers and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

It doesn’t matter what you are ranked until the end.

Do what you do and be who you are.

We have to compete within ourselves relative to the determination it takes to be successful.

Every choice, every decision, everything we do everyday, we want to be a champion

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

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

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

I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.

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.

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

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

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.

A good process produces good results.

I’ve never considered joining Twitter, nor do I know why anybody would.

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.

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

I've always been able to stay focused on trying to recruit good players and trying to develop those players.

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

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

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