Nick Saban Quotes

Since I was a child, I've always been annoyed if I didn't win. If I lost a match, I would be annoyed, and then I would just want to train so that I could win the next day.

I've always been very competitive, and I've always had this desire to win my entire life. I guess when it comes to being in the cage, especially, I just hate losing more than I like to win. The idea of someone beating me just doesn't sit well.

In everything I've done, I always just hated to lose more than I like to win.

When I do something, I want to win. If I lose, I feel bad.

I know what it's like to win things. You need a certain type of player with a determination to win. You see it in the eyes.

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

Essentially, I am a dreamer. I've dreamed all my life. When I started, I dreamed I'd be Champion because it is a sport that is all about the people who win the most, and I have a fear of not winning.

I always come out playing like I'm the underdog on the court. I never want anyone to catch up to me; that's just how I look at it.

The great ones hate to lose more than they love to win.

Winning was everything to me. I hated to lose.

If the play is drawn up for me, you better believe I'm going to go and try to win the game.

I hate losing more than I love winning.

I'm just a very tough person when I go on the court, and I really don't want to lose.

I always want to win because I never want to sit out on the sidelines outside.

I always tried to win. I was as competitive as I am today.

To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.

I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

I always had that, even when I was a kid in a go-kart or when I was playing soccer or tennis: that need of winning. It was there all my life, and it's still there now.

I'm very easy-going off court, but I really want to win once I'm walking on to the court.

I have a huge desire to win. That is why I am aggressive in a positive sense on the field.

My motivation is like it is always, try to be the best and try to win, that is part of my character.

Win at all cost. That's why I love playing the game.

In my first press conference I said, 'I'm here to win.' If you don't think that way, or any player thinks that way, why are you playing the game?

I find that after every win, there is a new surge in motivation because it feels so good. I am addicted to winning. That sounds terrible, but it is true you are addicted to that feeling.