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Nick Saban
American
Coach
Born:
Oct 31
,
1951
Game
Good
Me
People
Think
You
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Bobby Knight
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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 investing your time in that.
Nick Saban
Service
Time
Good
You
School
Decision
Good Person
Somebody
Whatever
Community
Down
Athlete
Some
Something
Invest
Investing
Make
Go
Accomplish
Goal
Person
Grades
Want
Whether
Your
Choose
Community Service
Help
Good Grades
Need
One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
Nick Saban
Adversity
Overcome
Matter
Back
Way
One Thing
Find
About
Thrown
Bounce
How
Hole
Them
Deep
Teams
Thing
Resilient
Championship
Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.
Nick Saban
People
High
Like
Achievers
Mediocre
We create a standard for how we want to do things, and everybody's got to buy into that standard or you really can't have any team chemistry.
Nick Saban
Buy
You
Chemistry
Everybody
Got
How
Any
Want
Create
Really
Standard
Team
Things
When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.
Nick Saban
Success
People
Satisfied
Thinking
Addictive
About
Having
More
Talking
Makes
Becomes
Get
Did
Want
Happen
Either
Little
Them
Really
Keep
Things
Things Happen
Two
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.
Nick Saban
Good
You
People
Care
Somebody
Looking
Other
Enough
Everybody
Else
Benefit
Ability
Emulate
Makes
Affect
Wants
Help
Teammate
You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, 'I must have contributed to this.'
Nick Saban
Saying
You
Blame
Yourself
Other
Say
Must
Guy
Look
Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
Nick Saban
Good
You
Disposition
Once
Total
Staying
About
Get
Need
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.
Nick Saban
Game
Happy
People
World
Win
Feeling
Think
Something
Between
Am
Accomplishing
Won
Just
Difference
Being
Want
Being Happy
Conquered
Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
Nick Saban
Character
Integrity
Honesty
Important
Our
Part
Important Part
One of these days when I'm finished coaching at Alabama, I'll write an authorized book because there's only one expert on my life, and guess who that is... me. And there won't be any misinformation. There won't be any false statements. There won't be any hearsay. There won't be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.
Nick Saban
Life
Me
Book
Will
My Life
Finished
Analysis
Else
Guess
Statements
Only
Write
Misinformation
Days
Because
Deal
Real
Real Deal
False
Hearsay
Authorized
Any
Anybody
Anybody Else
Expert
Coaching
Who
Alabama
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.
Nick Saban
Hurt
Fool
People
Complicated
Political
Somebody
Bad Things
Feelings
Think
Say
Bad
Diplomatic
About
Trying
Anybody
Want
Agenda
Things
When I talk about a successful program, define that. It's not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.
Nick Saban
Year
National
Every
Define
About
Winning
Nobody
Talk
Because
National Championship
Just
Successful
Championship
Program
I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn't seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
Nick Saban
Great
You
Challenges
Opportunity
Own
Control
Respected
Destiny
Seem
Great Opportunity
Could
Terms
Learn
How
Were
Lot
Different
Little
Your
Team
Enjoyed
Things
Bring
Players
I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.
Nick Saban
Opportunities
Giving
Kids
Never
Want
You wear your team out, and it's hard to get them back.
Nick Saban
You
Back
Out
Wear
Get
Them
Your
Hard
Team
Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.
Nick Saban
Our
Pretty
Get
Scrutinized
Hard
Alabama
Players
Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.
Nick Saban
Secondary
Kind
Stuff
Terms
Does
How
Lot
Same
Play
As a coach, when it comes to football players, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better.
Nick Saban
Change
People
Better
Behavior
Football
Football Players
Make
Trying
Them
Coach
Players
You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you're married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.
Nick Saban
Work
You
Married
About
Excited
Make
Gotta
Get
Getting
Getting Married
After
Process
Awhile
We played in a number of these neutral site games, I would call them, whether it's a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that's not really a home game for them.
Nick Saban
Home
You
Game
Think
Type
Our
Would
Classic
Some
Neutral
Know
Terms
Bowl
Call
Site
Whether
Place
Which
Them
Really
Games
Helpful
Things
Played
Players
Playing
Number
Playoff
George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.
Nick Saban
Me
Experience
Responsibility
First
Gave
State
Learned
George
Lot
Michigan
Being
As Far As
Far
Coach
Coordinator
If we'd had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.
Nick Saban
Drew
Had
Still
Miami
Might
I think center is a critical position.
Nick Saban
Think
Critical
Center
Position
I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don't ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.
Nick Saban
Game
Appreciation
People
Think
State
Browns
Environment
Particular
Like
Up
Get
Michigan
Same
Ohio
Who
Grow
Grow Up
Ever
Dame
I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I'm not saying it's good or bad; it kind of is what it is.
Nick Saban
Saying
Good
Other
Minimize
Kind
Bad
Had
Soon
Importance
Bowl
Said
Were
Going
Games
Playoff
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