Nick Saban Quotes

You don't wake up at 18 and necessarily become the person you want to be as an adult - you have to work hard to become them.

Do the day's work.

I work every day to improve and reach my top.

Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore.

Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.

If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.

I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.

What you become is what counts.

I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.

I guess, we were people who just dedicated to trying to get better.

If I were to look back on my work, I think I accomplished probably about 70 to 75 percent of what I could have. Maybe 60 percent. Somewhere in that area; two-thirds of what I could have accomplished. If I had been a really dedicated person, and really worked hard, I think I could have accomplished more.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

I tell young people - including my granddaughter - there is no shortcut in life. You have to take it one step at a time and work hard. And you have to give back.

One thing I've learned in life is that natural talent only takes you so far, and I've always wanted to grow.

Being productive at your craft is important. Being productive in your devotion to grow as a human is essential.