Nick Saban Quotes

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.

It's about the process. It's about getting better. 'Let's execute on this play, let's execute on this drive.' You do those things, and over the course of the season you'll get better as a team and you'll get to a point where hopefully you're playing at a high level to win the games that really become at another level.

What I do as an individual player is only important if it helps the team to win. That is the most important thing.

I took Hedo (Turkoglu) in the first game and Rashard (Lewis) hit the winning shot. I took Rashard in the second game and Hedo hit the shot. If I could clone myself, we'd be all right. But I can't.

You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games.

Every team that I've gone to has had trouble winning games. I guess that's what I've been put on this earth to do, to fix it.

Good teams make the playoffs, hot teams win the playoffs.

The test of a quarterback is where his team finishes.

The Seahawks defense has to go balls deep to win this game.

Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season.

If we play in the right way and do what the manager asks us then we will win games.

It's tough, it's not the scenario that we wanted for sure. I thought our desperation was there, we worked hard, but it was one game, a lot can happen, they're a good team, and unfortunately we didn't win. We had some bad bounces, and in one game those make a big difference, and unfortunately it didn't go our way. But if we play hard like that, we play desperate like that and control the puck the way we did down low, I like our chances against any team.

Get the best player because whether it's soccer or whether it's anything else the team with the best players wins. So focus your energy on getting the best and getting rid of the weakest.

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

I'm glad we were able to win this last one. I saw some good things tonight, ... It's just preseason, but we ran the ball good. I'm happy about that, and the first-team offense was pretty sharp.

If you lose a game, everyone asks why this player didn't play. If we win, nobody asks.

The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.

If it's early in the game and the team's not doing well, I get frustrated when I don't get the ball, because I think I can spark the team and get the crowd into it.

The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.

My job is to play well offensively and help my team score points. So I feel very responsible every time we lose a game.

He reminds me of Michael Jordan. "You look and they have similar games where they want to lead their team to victory, no matter if they have to shoot the ball every time or if they have to rebound or pass, they're going to find a way to win." I've always said that Kobe Bryant is the best scorer in our game today and he's definitely proving himself.

I have my goals, I have some things I want to achieve next basketball season individually. But the number one thing is always winning games. If you win games then everything else will take care of itself. You know nobody wants to see you guys score 30 and then lose every game.

It's all very simple: if you score one more than your opponent, you win.

We need to have preparation to win. A disciplined team will win more close games over a period of time.