Nick Saban Quotes

Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball.

Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what - it's not. It's rough as guts. It's great.

I've always been someone who said that football is a contact sport.

In football, there is always friction, collisions, contact. But I am used to that.

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our soccer is a moving game: play, play, play, move, move - you don't interrupt.

I love tackling, love it. It's better than sex.

I love talking football, and I love being around it.

I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn't say which is more physical.

American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.

The NFL, as compared to the NBA, it's so physical and so emotional almost every play.

I went to North Carolina to play football.

It's always a battle to play against Diego Costa.

It's a whole different world once you get into games. You have people actually trying to hit you, the speed of the game's a lot faster, you have a lot of different things you need to check and see. It's a whole different world up there once game time comes.

I love everything about this great game of football.

When I play, I like to use my pace and to link up with my team-mates.

Obviously, football and soccer seem to clash a lot, but soccer was great for me. It's a game that you play with triangles. You make a pass thinking that the person you pass the ball to is going to make the next pass.

I used to play rugby, which requires a lot of physical strength. The game requires you to get aggressive.