Nick Saban Quotes

One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It’s like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It’s easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.

People who are role models for the principles and values of the organization, who buy in and understand the vision of what the organization is trying to accomplish, and have the personality to inspire other people to the vision. You know, that’s what team chemistry and leadership is all about.

If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.

Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.

It’s never OK to lose a game.

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.

Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.

Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot. You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.

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.

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.

If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.

I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.

I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that’s not necessarily right.

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