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Show class, have pride, and display character.

If you do, winning takes care of itself.

- Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

I admire an awful lot about Coach Saban.

It’s hard to define all of those things, but anybody that’s

In this business, the coaching profession is built on respect.

I have great respect for what he’s done and how disciplined

He is and the work ethic that he has, but I always think he

Does things right. He does things with class, he treats people

The right way. How can you not admire that? It goes way back

To the days he recruited me out of high school. He was the

Position coach, the recruiting area coach, that recruited me

To Michigan State.

- Coach Mark Stoops

Things don’t happen by accident … You don’t win a game,

A division or a national championship by accident.

You have to make it happen and you have to make it

Happen by what you do every day.

- Coach Nick Saban

092916 quotes

Kindness can become its own motive.

We are made kind by being kind.

- Eric Hoffer

The problems we face now … poverty and violence

At home, war and destruction abroad … will last only

As long as we continue relying on the same politicians

Who created them in the first place.

- Donald Trump

People have to be responsible for their own

Self-determination.

- Coach Nick Saban

092816 quotes

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your

Belief in injustice and tragedy.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the Master calls the butterfly.
- Richard Bach

Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the

Country and its great citizens, and they don't like it

When somebody such as me speaks the truth about

This … it hurts too much.

- Donald Trump

Coach Nick Saban Is Focused On Preparation …

Winning football games is a byproduct of doing everything

Else well.  

Coach Saban understands winning comes much later.

This is his legendary “process”.  

The program begins in the weight room,

Off-season conditioning and summer practice.  

Regarding the games themselves, 

Assistant coach Sal Sunseri says, “It’s the total preparation.

Not just playing the game, but the mindset going into the

Game and how you’re preparing for it. You know it, you see

It (opponents’ alignments and plays) and you react to

Something you saw seven or eight times on the field in Tuscaloosa.”

092716 quotes

In every walk with nature one receives

Far more than he seeks.
- John Muir

It is better to light a candle than to

Curse the darkness.
Chinese proverb often quoted by

- Eleanor Roosevelt

The process is clearly defined but where do you fail?

The discipline to execute.

- Coach Nick Saban

092616 quotes

A long drive is good for the ego.

- Arnold Palmer

Approach the golf course as a friend,

Not an enemy.

- Arnold Palmer

Arnold Palmer has the best golf grip ever.

They should take his hands and bronze them.

His grip is even better than Harry Vardon’s,

And he invented it.

- Lee Trevino

092416 quotes

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with

What you can do.
- John Wooden

If we have a team full of champions we’ll have

A chance to win a championship.

- Coach Nick Saban

The selfishness must be discovered and understood

Before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove

Itself, neither will it pass away of itself.

Darkness ceases only when light is introduced;

So ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge;

Selfishness by Love.

- James Allen

092316 quotes

Money is either a good or bad influence,

According to the character of the person

Who possesses it.

- Napoleon Hill Foundation

Remember, happiness doesn’t depend on

Who you are or what you have; it depends

Solely on what you think.

- Zig Ziglar

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity

To "jump at the Sun." We might not land on the sun,

But at least we would get off the ground.

- Zora Neale Hurston 

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12 Reasons Smart Leaders Hire People Who Arrive Early

1. Being early means your mind is ready to learn.

2. Being early means your priorities are in order.

3. Being early means you are organized.

4. Being early means you have a plan.

5. Being early means you are prepared to execute your plan.

6. Being early shows respect to the leader who called the meeting.

7. Being early shows respect to your co-workers who are there 
to learn and get better.

8. Being early shows self-respect.

9. Being early models for new employees what is expected.

10. Being early makes your life easier.

11. Being early gives you more self-confidence.

12. Being early makes you more prepared for future assignments.

- Coach Pete Carroll

“Win Forever: Live, Work and Play Like a Champion.”

092116 quotes

Examine most carefully the things you desire most.

- Napoleon Hill Foundation

The most difficult thing is the decision to act …

The rest is merely tenacity.

- Amelia Earhart

The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing

What you like, doing what you love.

- Raphael Saadiq

092016 quotes

Process which defines what you need to do to

Accomplish the vision you have.

- Coach Nick Saban

You need work ethic and discipline to execute

it every day to be successful.

- Coach Nick Saban

You’re only as good as your last play.  

You’re only as good as your last game and

That’s how we’re going to be remembered.

- Coach Nick Saban

091916 quotes

The difference between successful and 

unsuccessful people is how they think.

- John Maxwell

What matters in life is not what happens to you

But what you remember and how you remember it.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't

hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.
- Coach Dick Vermeil 

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You can only receive what you're willing to give.

- Pat Riley

To me, there are three things we all should do

Every day. We should do this every day of our lives.

Number one is laugh…

You should laugh every day.

Number two is think…

You should spend some time in thought.

Number three is, you should have your emotions

Moved to tears, could be happiness or joy.

- Jim Valvano

Before I'd get in the ring, I'd have already won or lost it

On the road.  The real part is won or lost somewhere

Far away from witnesses … behind the lines, in the gym

And out there on the road, long before I dance under

Those lights.

- Muhammad Ali 

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Losing to Ole Miss (last season) is probably the

One thing that helped us the most to continue to

Develop the kind of team chemistry we needed.

- Coach Nick Saban

Every team has to develop their own identity, their

Own personality, and that gets done by everybody

Accepting their role to make this team better.

- Coach Nick Saban

Coaching can be viewed as criticism.  

It’s not really criticism. It’s really teaching.

Most of the time when you’re teaching some

Guy did something incorrectly you’re trying to fix.

- Coach Saban

091516 quotes

Great Coaches Help You Stay Focused …

They are not distracted.

- Brian Dodd

Great Coaches Are Great Recruiters …

Smart leaders know recruiting new,

Young talent is the lifeblood of any

Successful organization.

- Brian Dodd

Great Coaches Have Great Discipline …

They keep you accountable.

- Brian Dodd

Zac Brown Band- Day That I Die W/Lyrics

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Every time I stepped on the field,

I believed my team was going to walk off the winner,

Somehow, someway.

- Roger Staubach

You carry on no matter what are the obstacles.

You simply refuse to give up …

And, when the going gets tough,

You get tougher. And, you win.

- Vince Lombardi

Everybody is looking for instant success,

But it doesn't work that way.

You build a successful life one day at a time.

- Lou Holtz

091316 quotes

Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie

If you didn’t prepare well and you don’t

Have the right mindset; you just can’t turn it on.

- Coach Nick Saban

Grit is about working on something you care about

So much that you’re willing to stay loyal to it.

Grit is more about commitment, endurance,

And consistency over time than it is about talent.

Grit is needed to accomplish goals …

Especially stretch goals … and to change behavior.

- Angela Duckworth

A Tribute to my Mother Shelby Jean Mock Childs

September 12, 1943 ~ January 31, 2015

Today is my mother’s birthday.

She would have been 73 years old.

I miss her so much.

I look forward to being together again one day.

Love you,

Hayden

A mother should give her children a superabundance 

of enthusiasm, that after they have lost all they are sure

To lose in mixing with the world, enough may still remain

To prompt and support them through great actions.

- Julius C. Hare

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He, who sees the truth, let him proclaim it,
without asking who is for it or who is against it.
- Henry George

Efforts and courage are not enough without

Purpose and direction.

- John F. Kennedy

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream.

The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg,

And in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs.

Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

- James Allen

091116 Wanted ... Morality in America

“We will not change what’s wrong with our culture 

through legislation, or by choosing up sides on the 

basis of personal popularity or party affiliation.

We will change it by small acts of courage and kindness; 

by recognizing, each of us, his or her own obligation to 

set a proper example.

Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another.

Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it.

Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; 

and if, periodically, you fail … as you surely will … 

adjust your lives, not the standards.

There’s no mystery here. 

You know what to do.

Now go out and do it.”

- Ted Koppel

Commencement Address

Stanford University 06/14/98

091016 quotes

Happiness is found in doing …

Not merely in possessing.

- Napoleon Hill Foundation

Hold on to the people and things

That really matter.

Let most of the other stuff go.

- Michael Josephson

Forests, lakes, and rivers,
clouds and winds, stars and flowers,
stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes …
every form of animate or inanimate existence
leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
- Orison Swett Marden

090816 quotes

Inaction creates nothing.

Action creates success.

- Stephen Richards

We attract abundance when we ask

From a compassionate heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish

With your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

- James Allen

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Nothing endures but change.

- Heraclitus

Each minute is a little thing,

And yet, with respect to our

Personal productivity,

To manage the minute is the

Secret of success.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Win” to me means …

What Is Important Now?

- Coach Nick Saban

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Character is the real foundation of all

Worthwhile success.

- John Hays Hammond

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

Your life does not get better by chance,

It gets better by change.

- Jim Rohn

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091516 quotes

We all live under the same sky,

But we don’t all have the same horizon.

- Konrad Adenauer

If you don't like the way the world is,
you change it.
You have an obligation to change it.
You just do it one step at a time.
- Marian Wright Edelman 

Every player on the team has confidence

In certain other players that they can do

Things in certain critical situations…

That’s what happens when you win a team over.

You win their confidence.

- Coach Nick Saban

090316 Coach Nick Saban explains "THE PROCESS"

The process is really what you have to do day

In and day out to be successful …

We try to define the standard that we want everybody

To sort of work toward, adhere to, and do it on a

Consistent basis. And the things that I talked about before,

Being responsible for your own self-determination,

Having a positive attitude, having great work ethic,

having discipline to be able to execute on a consistent basis,
whatever it is you’re trying to do, those are the things that

We try to focus on, and we don’t try to focus as much on the 
outcomes as we do on being all that you can be.

Eliminate the clutter and all the things that are going on

Outside and focus on the things that you can control with

How you sort of go about and take care of your business.

That’s something that’s ongoing, and it can never change.

So it’s the process of what it takes be successful, very simply.

He loves to explain how the greatest athletes, like Michael Jordan 
and Mariano Rivera, understand that the “last race doesn’t matter.” 
They focus on the next game, the next quarter, the next pitch or shot.

He pushes his Crimson Tide in much the same way. In the first meeting after Alabama won the national championship last season, he told the assembled they were not national champions. They may have played
a title team, but this team was not that one.

- Coach Nick Saban