A Quote by Nick Saban

I don't believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team. — © Nick Saban
I don't believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.
Everybody wants to be a starter, and I feel like I'm a starter in this league, but I can't necessarily control that.
You do not have to be The fastest starter. Just be a starter! You will, without fail, Reach your destination-sun.
I know I'm good enough to be a starter and I'm a much more productive player when I get starter minutes. But I don't have to start. That's not me.
Not many people do what Jameis Winston did: first year as a starter winning a national championship, only one loss in his two years as a starter. He's got great charisma. He's polarizing for some people, but he's a rare talent.
I want to win a championship. I can't come on this team and demand to be a starter.
What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole, including the wage earner, wage payer, wage spender and wage saver, i.e., the investor. If the sparkplug and self-starter get out of commission, the car will come to a standstill.
If the team's winning, I'm going to do whatever I can to help the team, whether that's from third-string role, backup, starter, it doesn't matter. I'm going to do what I can to prepare and help the team.
I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn't start dating until I was in my 30s.
I have always been there to help the team, sometimes coming off the bench, other times as a starter.
When Peyton went into the game and remained the starter, it was OK with me because our team was winning games. We won a championship.
It's a different mind-set going into the off-season as a starter. The uncertainty from the team is gone, and your confidence grows.
Do you believe you're a starter or a benchwarmer? Do you believe you're an all-star or an also- ran? If the answers to these questions are the latter, your play on the field will reflect it. But when you've learned to shut off outside influences and believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be.
To me, there's no honor to say, 'I'm going to start.' As long as you're getting minutes, you're closing games, that shows more of the value to the team than to say you're a starter.
A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
For me, being a starter doesn't matter. Of course, I'd like to be in at the end of the game, to be a big part of the team, and to play as many minutes as I can play. But starting and coming off the bench are two different challenges.
I appear African-American, so it's not until I start talking that people go, 'Hold on, there's something not right here.' But it's an awesome conversation starter. I open my mouth, they get curious, and I say, 'Got a few minutes? Have a seat.'
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