Nick Saban Quotes

United States, Coach
October 31, 1951

Nicholas Lou Saban Jr. (/seɪbən/) is an American football coach who has been the head football coach at the University of Alabama since 2007. Saban previously served as head coach of the National Football League's Miami Dolphins and at three other universities: Louisiana State University (LSU), Michigan State University, and the University of Toledo. Saban's career record as a college head coach is 229-62–1.

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

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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.

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- Talent
- Ability
- Reasons

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.

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- Team
- Chemistry
- Standard
All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.

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- Control
- Play
- Destiny
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.

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- Better
- Players
- Behavior
When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what's important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.

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- Important
- Better
- System
College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.

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- Game
- College
- Longer
I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?

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- Question
- Win
- Lose

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.

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If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

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- Teacher
- Coach