Their thoughts— Nick Saban

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Alabama football coach Nick Saban is a master motivator who has won seven national championships. Here are some of his thoughts:

  • We’re not going to talk about what we’re going to accomplish, we’re going to talk about how we’re going to do it.
  • We don’t talk about winning championships, we talk about being champions.
  • I’m tired of hearing all this talk from people who don’t understand the process of hard work. It’s like little kids in the back seat asking ‘Are we there yet?’ Get where you’re going one mile-marker at a time.
  • It’s not the end result. Don’t think about winning the SEC championship. Don’t think about the national championship. Think about what you needed to do in this drill, on this play, in this moment. That’s the process: Let’s think about what we can do today, the task at hand.
  • If you don’t allow yourself to be so result-oriented with the kids, you can focus more on the things in the process that are important to them being successful.
—Adapted from The Coaching and Leadership Journal, March 2013

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