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Focus on the process of what it takes to be successful.

Nick Saban

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Nick Saban
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 31
American Football Player
Football Coach
Fairmont
West Virginia
Nicholas Lou Saban
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Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game.
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I don't think it's about who you play, I think it's about who you are.
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I asked my priest if it was a sin to play golf on Sunday. And he said, It's a sin for you to play anytime.
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Teaching is the ability to inspire learning.
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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.
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I don’t care what you did yesterday. If you’re happy with that, you have bigger problems.
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When you play against good people, that's when you focus your concentration. Your sense of urgency to be disciplined in your execution all become more critical. Sometimes you get away with doing things not quite right against lesser competition, but when you play against real good people that's when it shows up.
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I don't control what people put on dot-com or anything else. So I'm just telling you there's no significance, in my opinion, about this, about me, about any interest that I have in anything other than being the coach here.
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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.
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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.
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There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results.
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Mediocre people hate high achievers, and high achievers hate mediocre people.
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You can't get from A to Z by passing up B.
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To be a great player, you have to affect the entire unit.
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It's about how the players play and compete. I know everybody is going to equate that on winning or losing, like they always do, but if we play hard and compete well in the game .. then I think we are building on something.
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Focus on the play like it has a history and a life of its own.
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We have got to use every opportunity to improve individually so we can improve collectively.
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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 people are and what they are.
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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.
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I'm tired of hearing all this talk from people who don't understand the process of hard work-like little kids in the back seat asking 'Are we there yet?' Get where you're going 1 mile-marker at a time.
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