Nick Saban Quotes

If ambition is the desire to be the best at what you do, then I'm guilty.

The want to improve myself and win tournaments and see how far I go is crucial.

You make a choice to win and you win...

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.

I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.

I knew I'm a hard worker and always wanted to be great at this game.

I see myself as the product of hard work.

I was a sheet metal worker, then a metal engineer, then a Pontin's bluecoat, then a comedian. You can achieve anything you want if you put your mind to it.

I'm definitely driven to go as far as I can.

I left Brazil with the mentality of wanting to win in life.

I'm ambitious in a good way. I've never wanted to settle as long as I've thought there's more.

I want to give some advice; to win you need champions who are used to winning and who have the winning mentality.

My dreams are who I'm racin wit but you can see I'm pacin it so that I'm always chasin it.

Now I realized that me and him were just alike. We were both born to win. And, when we were not winning, it was OK 'cause we were busy planning to win.

I do love the feeling of a big win. But you don't have to have a World Series ring to be a winner. A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished. Being able to get the most from their ability. That's what characterizes a winner.

I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.

First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.

I think everybody should take the attitude that we're working to be a champion, that we want to be a champion in everything that we do. Every choice, every decision, everything that we do every day, we want to be a champion.

With every word, I drop knowledge. I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

They'll tell you failure is not an option. That is ridiculous, failure is always an option. Failure is the most readily available option at all times. But it's a choice. You can choose to fail or you can choose to succeed.

Life is filled with difficult decisions, he thought. And winners are those who make them.