610 Quotes by Nick Saban

I don't believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.

I think there's a certain pride people have in competition.

You get excited about getting married, aight, but after you're married for awhile, you gotta have a process to make it work, aight.

I certainly like to win. But I really hate to lose. So when you think about that, you're always motivated to, 'I don't want to lose the next game. I don't want to lose the next game.'

I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.

You wear your team out, and it's hard to get them back.

Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.

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.

It's been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it's personally, academically, or athletically.