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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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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.
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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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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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You can't win together if you don't work together.
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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. Mediocre people don't like high-achievers and high-achievers don't like mediocre people.
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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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Be all you can be in whatever you choose to do. The sky is the limit, so go for it. And do not create any self-imposed limitations.
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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'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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Teaching is the ability to inspire learning.
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To be a great player, you have to affect the entire unit.
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The difference nowadays is that when I go on vacation I work some of the time rather than all of the time.
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We have got to use every opportunity to improve individually so we can improve collectively.
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There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results.
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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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Every choice, every decision, everything we do everyday, we want to be a champion
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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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Mediocre people hate high achievers, and high achievers hate mediocre people.
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Discipline is not punishment. Discipline is changing someone’s behavior.
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