Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Nick Saban on Culture

CULTURE:
-“We don’t have one individual on our team that can make our team great, but we can have one individual who could destroy the team chemistry by making bad decisions and destroy all the things we’re talking about.”

-“Team chemistry begins to surface in the summer. True leaders start to emerge. You start to see the core buy-in that everybody has in terms of how they go about what they do. For the first time, the responsibility becomes theirs instead of somebody else’s. You start to see what the team might be.”

-“It’s almost like you’re being brainwashed into, ‘This is how you play the game, how it has to be,” Peek said. “Those stories, those messages, and how that relates to us are reiterated by the coaches.”

-“I don’t want sheeps. I don’t want guys that need to be led.”

-“No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help someone out.”

-“He does an outstanding job of getting everybody on the same page and making sure that they understand ‘Look, you’re going to buy in or you’re going to become irrelevant.”

-“You’ve got to be responsible and accountable and be able to do your job. There’s a way you have to do it in terms of the effort, the toughness and the intangibles and dependability you have and discipline you have in carrying out your responsibility. And I, quite frankly, think when you have a critical mass of players on your team that think like that, they don’t really want other guys that don’t think that way to be out there with them.”

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