Quotes from Nick Saban

I think I'm pretty misunderstood, because I'm not just about football.

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.'

When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.

When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what's important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.

When I talk about a successful program, define that. It's not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.

I try to stay out of the spotlight.

George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.

One of these days when I'm finished coaching at Alabama, I'll write an authorized book because there's only one expert on my life, and guess who that is... me. And there won't be any misinformation. There won't be any false statements. There won't be any hearsay. There won't be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.

Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness.

You can't win together if you don't work together.

Our goal is to work against things we have not seen that we will see in the near future.

The difference nowadays is that when I go on vacation I work some of the time rather than all of the time.

I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don't ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.

It's never OK to lose a game.

Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot. You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.

I just want everybody to know that I'm opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.

Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I've ever been involved with.

You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It's hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football. You can't keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren't always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.

Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game.

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.

We don't have rules that people can't use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible. We certainly don't want them to do anything that's going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.

Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.

I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.

I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that's not necessarily right.