A Quote by Nick Saban

Any team that does not win it's conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game — © Nick Saban
Any team that does not win it's conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game
Milestones you'd like to reach before retiring? Not really. Because when I began it was never to reach 100 games or reach 200 or to get high on the all-time list or whatever else. Those things are by-products. I want to win another championship, beginning with the conference championship. The thing that was disappointing to me last year was the fact that we did not win the conference championship. I felt like we just let that game (against Air Force in Las Vegas) get away from us.
Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game.
That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
If you're going to be a championship-caliber team or a threat to be a championship-caliber team you have to play a 200-foot game and you have to produce on both ends of the ice.
If you limit yourself, in my opinion you’re just saying, ‘We’re not supposed to win this game.’ You’re playing into their hands. You are scared of what of this team does. You can’t go into the game scared, that’s for sure. Richard Sherman, a great player but you have to play football.
I think running the country is a little more important than worrying about the BCS title game.
We're not going to do anything different for this game since we're not treating this game any different than another game. Every game is a championship game for us, so we'll treat this one, the last one and the next one exactly the same. And that goes for our practices leading up to it as well.
Offense is one phase of the game. You have to be able to play the other phases of the game and help your team win.
A star can win any game; a team can win every game.
Each game we play, every game is a championship-game mindset.
We play every game to win and take the game forward. And if in trying to win we lose a game, tough luck.
The goal of life is not to win. It is to play the game with love. The rules of the game are: have a strong desire to win, believe that you are worthy of winning, have faith that you will win, and, as long as you are alive, never believe that the game is over.
That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.
We are the best team of the tournament and deserved the title but luck did not favour us. I think the future of this team is good. If we play more friendly matches and target the SAFF Championship, I think this team can deliver that title.
I've learned that every game is different. You could play one team and have a terrible game and the next time you play them have the best game of your career.
You don't really want to play your brother. You want to play your brother in a championship game because not only does someone lose, someone's going to win a championship, too. To me, that's the only time you're really looking to do it.
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