610 Quotes by Nick Saban

Sometimes when you press, you have high anxiety, and it affects the way you perform.

I would hope that self-indulgence is not something that we're concerned about at this point. Personal ego has to be given up a little bit out of respect for one another.

Sometimes, players have never had things explained that way to them, and maybe that's why they see it a little bit different,

My biggest concern was how the members of our team would respond and react to Ricky coming back. And I think everybody had the idea that if he was committed to coming back and wanted to be a player that would contribute to the success of the team, that they would be all for it.

My biggest concern is how many players do we have that can go in and play (winning) football,

Sometimes, just like when players are available, you have to make decisions on whether we should bring someone like that into our organization. It's not about whether you have an opening or not. It's about whether this is a positive addition to our organization. That's what we've done. That doesn't mean that it creates other issues for somebody else.

(Ronnie) wants to do well and he is working hard to do well and you can't always evaluate every situation based on results, in terms of how many yards he is getting a carry and things like that. Some of it is his responsibility, but I think it is a team thing that we all need to improve on, so everybody has a chance to be more successful, including Ronnie Brown.

We have people in personnel, coaching, the front office. Everybody should be working toward the same goal.

Ronnie did some very good things, from a blocking standpoint, and made a couple of nice runs,