610 Quotes by Nick Saban

They double-covered him a couple of times, actually, so it was the right choice not to throw it to him. But he's a guy we need to have involved in the offense.

I don't want to say he has a sore arm, but when you start to get one, that is the time to back off and not let it become one. I think that was what we were kind of doing as a precautionary measure today.

There were too many penalties in the game. We talk about playing hard and competing, but you also have to play smart. That's something we need to do a better job of. We did a lot of good things out there, but they were negated by our errors.

When we get weather that's disruptive, which we've had now two years in a row, I think that's benefit number one.

There may be 25 players out there we feel are potential guys that would be first-round picks regardless of where we pick. We have to bring to some kind of organizational order to who brings the most value to us. That's something that's a work in progress.

I don't think we are going to do a lot of stuff. We haven't done much the whole preseason. . . but what we want to do is, go through a preparation so the players get an idea of what we are doing and the kind of adjustments they have to make and things like that. It's more the idea of going through the process than it is to do different things.

What happens to everybody else has nothing to do with us, understand?

He bought a bus and went and picked everyone up so they wouldn't have to hitchhike,

They're great at making adjustments, and great at getting things fixed.