Nick Saban Quotes

I think there's a lot that goes into an offense, obviously.

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone's goal is to score points.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

If you're a quarterback and you keep throwing interceptions, you change quarterbacks.

If you're winning and can stay on the field offensively and move the ball, that's what we want.

If I was to play on the left, I'd rather play there if there was three in midfield.

You've got to play to your players' talents.

I prefer playing in a 4-3-3.

I think you always try to put the offense in the best position to make good plays, which usually requires us to move multiple people around and give them an opportunity to impact a game in a lot of different ways.

Sometimes, it is logical that by analysing a player, one thinks it is better to play him in one place or another, but then, if he is good, you can be more flexible.

We're going to try to tailor our offense to our player's ability.

It's a mystery coming out each and every game to try and figure out how a team is going to guard me and how I'm going to dictate how my team wins.

Ultimately, the yards really don't matter. So you have to score enough points, and I have been fortunate in my career to have been around some really good play callers, starting with Gary Kubiak and then going with Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay, and that was always at the forefront of our minds: How can we create explosive plays?

We're trying to win football games, and whoever we feel like gives us the best chance is who's going to play behind center.

There are some games where I will look to be more aggressive and score more, and then there are games that I want to be more of a playmaker.

At Golden State, it was basically a guard-oriented offense and it wasn't either around me or in my direction.

It's good to be able to run and have a balanced offense. They've got to be worried about both things. They can't just focus on the run game or the passing game and have us locked down that way. So when you have balance, good things are going to happen on offense.

For me, the goal is to make the most of each player, play them in the position they feel best in. And then repeat, repeat, repeat.

You have to attack to get corners, no? Winning by scoring strategic goals doesn't bother me - it's part of the game.

I don't go into a game thinking I'm going to run more than I'm going to pass. So it just depends on what the defense is going to bring in the situation of the game and what happens that play.

People often talk about a coach's philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on their style.

You buy the right players for the system that you believe will be successful.

I really think your roster and your personnel dictates your style of play. When you have David West and Roy Hibbert does it make sense to play spread pick-and-roll game when you have those abilities inside?

On one-on-one, I'm either trying to get the first down or trying to score.