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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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Nick Saban
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 31
American Football Player
Football Coach
Fairmont
West Virginia
Nicholas Lou Saban
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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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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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Focus on the play like it has a history and a life of its own.
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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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There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results.
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Discipline is not punishment. Discipline is changing someone’s behavior.
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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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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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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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In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year.
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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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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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I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.
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The formula for success is every guy can make a difference for the entire team in whatever his role is. And to do it right, to get it right, is a critical factor in being successful.
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Every choice, every decision, everything we do everyday, we want to be a champion
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Mediocre people hate high achievers, and high achievers hate mediocre people.
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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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