Nick Saban Quotes

I've always tried to grow people rather than cricketers.

I encourage all players to work to be their best, which includes looking for opportunities beyond the playing field.

People think that coaching is about winning football matches - which, of course, it is - but throughout my career it has also been about helping people become better, more able to deal with life and be more successful in their lives, on and off the football pitch.

When you're younger, it's about, 'How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?' As you get older, it's, 'How can this football team improve?' While all along getting better along the way.

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

I think sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways.

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

My father's coaching Misha and I just might help from time to time.

I'm a better and more educated person because of basketball.

As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

I'm glad that I ran track in high school. I think it paid off.

I just really just try to get better as a player every week, just focusing on the team we have to play this week, and just trying to do whatever is best for the team that week.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.

I'm sure Mourinho will make me a better player and a better person.

I think the coaches have to play a big role in the players' development.

Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players.

I want me and my teammates to go as far as we can and to be the best players that we all can be.

Certainly when you're surrounded by top-class players, like Cesc Fabregas, Eden Hazard, all of them, you only can make progress in a situation like that.

I believe that I've improved a lot as a player and a person, because being surrounded by great players on a daily basis helps your development out on the pitch.

My coaches, trainer and agency have all helped make me the player and the business that I am today.

Welcome to the world we live in as coaches. You've got to figure out what you can do best and better to get these kids a chance to be successful. I think that comes through a lot of things - confidence, improvement, recruiting.

I trust the team around me to guide my career in the right direction, I just do the fighting.

You know, my stepdad taught me growing up, you know, if the team has success then the individual things will follow.