Quotes by Nick Saban

“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.”

“I guess I'm motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don't do things the way you need to do them to have success.”

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

“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...”

“The thing I like about college football so much is you can affect these guys a lot more when they are 18-22, 23 years old in terms of people and having a chance to be more successful. They are stil...”

“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 acc...”

“Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that's a negative, but I think it's a real positive. You have the ball in your hand every time when you're a quarterback. Whether you're ha...”

“My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It's not just the job. A lot of people don't get that. My life is here.”

“Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That's what we do, and we're proud of the success we've had here doing that, and it's something we'll certainly continu...”

“It's great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.”

“Mediocre people don’t like high achievers and high achievers don’t like mediocre people”

“You’ve been wrong five years in a row & every year we’ve won it, you haven’t picked us. But I’m rooting for you”

“You can’t kick people out of your family … There’s never been a player I’ve kicked off the team that has ever amounted to anything - On why he does not dismiss players”

“And they (Georgia Southern in the year 2011) run through our ass like shit through a tin horn- man, and we could not stop them. Could not stop them”