The thing I like about college football so much is …– Nick Saban

The thing I like about college football so much is you can affect these guys a lot more when they are 18-22, 23 years old in terms of people and having a chance to be more successful. They are still a value type development, where you have a chance to help them mature a bit […]
Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who …– Nick Saban

Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
When you have the ability to affect other people …– Nick Saban

When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.
Now, everybody always says there’s no ‘I’ in team…– 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 […]
Mediocre people don’t like high achievers…– Nick Saban

Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.
I don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we …– Nick Saban

I don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we win – I am. But there’s a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, ‘This is it – we conquered the world.’ We didn’t. We just won a game.
When you invest your time…– Nick Saban

When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re […]
I don’t try to sensationalize anybody…– Nick Saban

I don’t try to sensationalize anybody. I’m not trying to entertain. I’m trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program.
There’s two parts of leadership…– Nick Saban

There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people. But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how […]
It’s been our goal as a program to always give our …– Nick Saban

It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.