35+ Nick Saban Quotes From The American Football Coach
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Hard work, persistence and the drive to keep moving despite the fall are characteristics everybody requires to conquer their battles, and nobody helps to build these traits, better than a notable mentor.
“A good coach can change a game, a great coach can change a life,” correctly said by John Wooden, a great head coach not only guides through the games, but also mentors and builds characters and hence vastly impacts life.
After winning six national championships and numerous matches the name of University of Alabama football coach, Nick Saban, has become synonymous with winning.
As extraordinary as Saban has been at the on-field instructing, game planning and preparation as a head coach, he's also seemingly great on the recruiting trail. Mark Ingram and Derrick Henry are among the notable players that Saban recruited and coached.
Nick Saban is an extreme disciplinary and the best coach, in fact, no college football head coach has dominated the modern era like him.
Nick Saban quotes on football are truly motivating for players and teams. So, you will surely enjoy our Nick Saban quotes on football teams and players.
If you like this article, do check out our John Madden quotes and Mike Leach quotes.
Nick Saban Motivational Quotes
Excellence and greatness doesn't appear overnight. As we all know that hard work is the key to success, when hard work is accompanied with the drive to be awesome, there is no stopping the best outcomes.
However, few comprehend this concept better than Nick Saban. Read on for some of the most motivating Nick Saban leadership quotes about focusing along with Nick Saban quotes on winning to create your own strategy.
1. “The opponent should never determine your level of competitive spirit.”
- Nick Saban.
2. “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.
3. “Every time you think of winning the national championship—stop. Instead, think of what you have to do to dominate your opponent for sixty minutes.”
-Nick Saban
4. “In my three decades of coaching, I’ve learned that the process is much more important than the result.”
- Nick Saban.
5. “In life, your road map is knowing what you want to accomplish then committing yourself to doing the things necessary to reach that destination. You cannot get there without hard work and perseverance.”
- Nick Saban.
6. “The major by-product of creating a mission statement and vision for you or your organization is that it creates a culture of expectations. If you have clearly defined who you are and where you want to go, then there is no longer any need for debate about it…everyone knows what to expect.”
- Nick Saban.
7. “There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.”
- Nick Saban.
8. “I think everybody should take the attitude that we're working to be a champion, that we want to be a champion in everything that we do. Every choice, every decision, everything that we do every day, we want to be a champion.”
- Nick Saban.
9. “Becoming a champion is not an easy process...It is done by focusing on what it takes to get there and not on getting there.”
- Nick Saban.
10. “Discipline is not punishment. Discipline is changing someone’s behavior.”
- Nick Saban.
Nick Saban Quotes On Teamwork
Nick is one amongst the only two coaches who has won the SEC championship. Read on for some of the best Nick Saban Alabama quotes along with football teamwork quotes and championship quotes.
11. “One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you're around guns unless you're going hunting, and you don't want to mess around with women that you don't know because a lot of times, bad things happen.”
- Nick Saban.
12. “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.
13. “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 that is going to happen.”
- Nick Saban.
14. “We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.”
- Nick Saban.
15. “So I want everybody to think here for a second. How much does this game mean to you? ‘Cause it if means something to you, you can’t stand still. You understand? You play fast.
You play strong. You go out there and dominate the man you’re playing against and you make his ass quit. That’s our trademark. That’s our M.O. as a team. That’s what people know us as.”
- Nick Saban.
16. “I want everybody here to know, this is not the end. This is the beginning.”
- Nick Saban.
17. “We have three kinds of guys on our team. We have guys that get it; they play good; they understand how to play winning football. We have some guys that are trying to get it, and they are working hard every day?
We are supporting them, and we want the guys that have it to support them. Then we have some guys that don't get it and don't know that they don't get it. We are trying to replace them. We only have a couple left.”
- Nick Saban.
18. “We’re not going to talk about what we’re going to accomplish. We’re going to talk about how we’re going to do it.”
- Nick Saban.
19. “There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you’ll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.”
-Nick Saban.
20. “I don’t think it’s about who you play, I think it’s about who you are.”
- Nick Saban.
21. “Everybody hits me up for eating Little Debbies, but no one passes that cookie jar without taking one.”
- Nick Saban.
22. “Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence.”
- Nick Saban.
23. “What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment.”
- Nick Saban.
Nick Saban Famous Quotes
Nick Saban has procured about seven national titles as a head coach; the most in the history of college football. Saban holds a career record of 232-62-1, becoming the third-fastest mentor to reach 200 wins. Read on for the most famous coach quotes along with Nick Saban quotes on the process.
24. “A good process produces good results.”
- Nick Saban.
25. “You can’t win together if you don’t work together.”
- Nick Saban.
26. “I don’t throw it as much, as I get older,” Saban said. “That’s really what’s hard on those straw hats, when you sort of sling them when somebody doesn’t do what they are supposed to do.”
- Nick Saban.
27. “I remember how scared to death I was as a little kid of Santa Claus.”
- Nick Saban.
28. “If we just didn't do that kind of stuff, we wouldn't have to worry about it.”
- Nick Saban.
29. “If I had a barometer...to see whether you were giving effort, or not, it was about 50 percent.”
- Nick Saban.
30. “The thing they were most concerned about is that he had a commitment to come back and try to help the team be successful.”
- Nick Saban.
31. “We’re still in the information-gathering stage. People like to ask strategic questions about what we’re going to do.”
- Nick Saban.
32. “This is an opportunity for each and every one of those guys to show what they can do.”
- Nick Saban.
Nick Saban Quotes On Football
After spending more than a decade as the head football coach at the University, Saban is unequivocally one of the greatest football coaches of all time. Read on for some of the best Nick Saban quotes on football along with Nick Saban quotes on motivation of players.
33. “There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results.”
- Nick Saban.
34. “Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness.”
- Nick Saban.
35. “Great leaders are not always popular.”
- Nick Saban.
36. “Character is what you do when no one else is watching.”
- Nick Saban.
37. “The #1 thing needed to win is mindset.”
- Nick Saban.
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