11 Quotes & Sayings By Nick Saban

Nick Saban is the head football coach at the University of Alabama. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on February 28, 1966. He attended high school in New Orleans and Louisiana State University (LSU) where he played quarterback for the LSU Tigers football team. After graduating with a degree in physical education in 1987, he served as an assistant football coach at LSU until 1990 Read more

In 1991, he became the wide receivers coach for the NFL's Cleveland Browns. He moved to the University of Toledo in 1993 as offensive coordinator and on to Michigan State University as offensive coordinator prior to moving to Alabama in 1999 as offensive coordinator. Saban began his head coaching career by taking over for Bob Pruett on December 3, 2000 at Toledo where he won his first game as a head coach against Bowling Green on December 10, 2000 by a score of 24–17.

Saban led Toledo to an undefeated season and won the MAC championship with a victory over Eastern Michigan University on November 17, 2001 by a score of 33–26. Saban moved back to Alabama in 2002 as offensive coordinator under Dennis Franchione. After Franchione was fired prior to the 2004 season, Saban was promoted to head coach of the Crimson Tide where he has led them to two National Championships (in 2011 and 2015).

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It's great to see our players get some of their dreams come true. Nick Saban
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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. Nick Saban
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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. Nick Saban
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If you're a coach, you're a teacher. Nick Saban
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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. Nick Saban
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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 still a value type development, where you have a chance to help them mature a bit and help them be a little more successful in life. Nick Saban
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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 accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That's the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen. Nick Saban
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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 handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that's extremely important. Nick Saban
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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. Nick Saban
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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 continue to do. Nick Saban