610 Quotes by Nick Saban

Sam has worked hard and played very well for us. He has gotten better and better all year long and has especially played well in the second half of the season. He has been a good guy on our team.

We have some players that I think don't play with the kind of confidence that I would like to see, ... It affects their ability to make plays.

Rather than wear him out, we played him about as much as we planned. We'll play him more and more as time goes on and he gets in better and better shape.

We have a goal for how many explosive plays that we want to make. We don't want to make those explosive plays at the expense of making poor decisions that are going to turn into turnovers and interceptions. Taking care of the ball and managing the game are more important than that.

We have competition at safety and I think that's healthy and good, but I don't think that warrants any changes at this point.

Personally, I hate to release any of the guys. I feel like this is our team. These guys have been here. They've worked hard. They've all made a tremendous commitment and sacrifice to trying to make the team. I have a lot of respect for what they've tried to do and feel badly that every guy can't, maybe, realize his dreams.

We have an idea of how we're going to use (Williams), but we don't have an idea of how much we're going to use him.

Our doctors felt comfortable about the circumstance of his injury, where he is in his rehab and where he can be in the future. It's our goal to get him ready for this season. He's on schedule to do that.

We have an idea of how we're going to use him, but we don't have an idea of where he is in terms of how much we'll use him. There's a difference. You try to bring players back role-wise without putting them at risk for injury.