I was really excited and pleased with the job our team did, the way they hung in there in the game. You can be critical about kicking three field goals, can be critical about a lot of things, but if you're critical it's only because you have expectations for something that this team still needs to improve. I think everybody is committed to trying to do that. That’s what we’re going to be committed to.

-  Coach Nick Saban on the 25-0 victory vs. Ole Miss 092813

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.  Unsuccessful people are always asking, what’s in it for me?

-  Brian Tracy

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

-  Denis Waitley

092813 quotes

The opponent should never determine your level of competitive spirit.

-  Nick Saban

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

-  George Allen

All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means … you’re willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

-  Vince Lombardi

092613 quotes

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.

-  Bob Proctor

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

-  Joshua J. Marine

You either ride life or it rides you. Your mental attitude determines who is rider and who is horse.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

092513 quotes

Honor is better than honors.

-  Abraham Lincoln

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
-  George Bernard Shaw

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

-  Helen Keller 

092413 quotes

You cannot change what you refuse to confront.

-  Anonymous

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your
dominant aspiration.
-  James Allen

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

-  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

092313 quotes

Stop being who you were and become who you are.

-  Paul Coelho

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
-  Denis Waitley

There are three things vital to success in athletics … conditioning, fundamentals, and working together as a team.

-  John Wooden

092213 quotes

Motivation is what gets you started.  Habit is what keeps you going.

-  Jim Ryun

If you don’t know what you want from life, what do you think you will get?

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.

-  Robert Louis Stevenson 

092113 quotes

Tough times never last. Tough people do.
-   Robert Schuller

Accept responsibility for your life.  Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

-   Les Brown

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

-   John Wooden 

092013 quotes in honor of our beautiful daughter Allison who celebrated her birthday yesterday

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, I’m possible!

-  Audrey Hepburn 

The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.

-  Joel Brown

 

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true

Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Way above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then oh why can't I?

If happy little blue birds fly beyond the rainbow
Why oh why can't I?

-   E Y Harburg

091713 quotes

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
-  James Allen
 
There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

-   Bruce Lee

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
-  Stephen Covey

Coach Nick Saban quotes following 49-42 victory over Texas A&M 091413

We knew we were going to have play this way on offense to have a chance in this game, I didn't think they were going to score 42 points, but I kind of thought they would score some points and they did.

I'm so proud of our players for the resiliency they showed getting behind 14-0, just slowly and methodically coming back in the game and building up the lead.

I know you (media) tried to make it out (to be) a 61-year-old guy against that good quarterback (Johnny Manziel) but we didn't have much of a chance in that game, We had a lot better chance our team against their team.

We needed everybody all in today, even though it got ugly at times, they competed and it was a great win for us.

Alabama Coach Nick Saban

091413 quotes

Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
-  Ralph Marston

It’s about being relentless is the pursuit of your goals, and resilient in the face of bad luck and adversity.

-  Nick Saban

A negative mind never attracts happiness or material success, but it will attract their opposites.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

091013 quotes

We are responsible for what we create, not the other team.

-  Nick Saban

Many people allow their need for other people's approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
-  Rick Warren

Winners recognize and work on changing their attitudes and beliefs and expectations first, and then they easily and naturally take the actions that lead to the achievement of their goals.

-  Mike Brooks

090913 quotes

What counts can’t always be counted; what can be counted doesn’t always count.

-  Albert Einstein 

It is nearly a certainty that some of your expectations will not be met today … choose Joy anyway.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our commitment, conviction, attitude allowed us to do what we needed to do as a team to achieve at the highest level.

- Nick Saban

090813 quotes

Winners are simply willing to do what losers won’t.

Anonymous

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Henry Ward Beecher

A golfer can’t dictate what his opponents shoot. He can’t wave his arms or tackle a playing partner who’s getting ready to putt. But he can always reach within himself to bring out the best in his battle against the laws of physics and par.

Arnold Palmer

090713 quotes

Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts, cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.

-  Ernest Holmes

Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.

-  Larry Winget 

Faith is daring to put your dream to the test. It is better to try to do something and fail than to try to do nothing and succeed.

-  Robert H. Schuller 

090513 quotes

He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.

-  Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance you must keep moving.

-  Albert Einstein

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
-  Marianne Williamson

090413 quotes

Dream big and dare to fail.

-  Norman Vaughan

A good football team relies more on harmonious coordination of effort than individual skill.

-  Napoleon Hill Foundation

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

-  Anatole France

090113 quotes

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

 -  Charles Bruxton

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

-  Samuel Johnson

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

-  Colin Powell