Nick Saban Quotes on Process

 One of my favorite coaches is Nick Saban, he is a master motivator and a guy that simply understands how to lead people.  Here are some of his quotes:

-“Focus on the process of what it takes to be successful.”
-“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—like little kids in the back seat asking ‘Are we there yet?’ Get where you’re going 1 mile-marker at a time.”
-“It’s the stages you have to go through to be successful.” –Alabama OL coach J. Pendry
-“The scoreboard has nothing to do with the process. Each possession you look across at the opponent and commit yourself to dominate that person. It’s about individuals dominating the individuals they’re playing against. If you can do this…if you can focus on the one possession and wipe out the distractions…then you will be satisfied with the result.”
-“He says ‘the grind’ a lot. The things you have to do so you can do what you want to do. Like play for the national championship. All the workouts. Spring ball. All the practices, summer workouts, and things like that.” –Alabama LB E. Anders
-“Focus on the play like it has a history and a life of its own.”
-“Success doesn’t come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It’s the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence.”
-“You can’t get from A to Z by passing up B.”
-There’s no mention of titles. Instead, his message has been that the way to win a championship is to concentrate on what you’re doing today, and try to build on that tomorrow.
-“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.”
-“One thing we need to do differently in motivating players and helping them be successful is not to talk about results. Our goal next year is to be a dominant football team.”
-“The process of our 2004 national title began 400 days earlier with a loss to Arkansas. Every second of that process led us to a championship.”
-“If you don’t get result-oriented with the kids, you can focus on the things in the process that are important to them being successful.”

Quotes on The Process

I apologize for the long break I took from my blog.  I will once again be posting blog posts on a more regular basis.  My first 1 back is on some quotes that deal with taking care of the process.  Quoted are Nick Saban (Alabama), Derek Dooley (Tennessee), and Jimbo Fisher (FSU)
"Process-oriented thinking as opposed to outcome-oriented thinking: Some times you want to win so fast you don't know how to win. Our goal is to get the structure of the staff and the support and resources in place to facilitate a winning plan and get players into the structure and start affecting change now." Jimbo Fisher

"I don't think it's normal to be great. I think it's special. The human condition is to be average and to survive. And everybody assumes that everybody wants to be as good as they can be all the time, but that's not true. If that was the case, everybody would be doing fantastic out there, right? So it's special to be as good as you can be. It's special to work to reach your full potential. It's special to go do it every day, day-in and day-out and never give yourself a break."
Nick Saban

"(One) thing that's important that we do is start developing our brand of how we compete and how we play. We shouldn't ever lose sight of that. I'm talking not just schematically, but more so from an intangible standpoint -- what kind of competitive spirit we practice and play with. What's our discipline level? What's our toughness level What's our effort level on every play?"
Derek Dooley

"Everybody has got to ask themselves what they've got to do to get better, but I think the message to the team was 'Wherever you are, make a commitment to try and improve and raise the standard of how you can execute to help your unit and our team, how you can improve yourself, in terms of the effort that you give, the toughness that you play with and the ability to execute."
Nick Saban

"I would really like players to have more positive thoughts about practice, have fun in practice, look forward to how they can improve in practice, and how we can play better in games, have more positive thoughts rather than the difficulty of it all." Nick Saban

"We can all change. We can all learn. That's what separates guys -- the ability to learn and process information. We're not a very situation-smart football team. That's why we constantly put them in (situations) and educate them as to what to do." Jimbo FIsher

"I think it's important that your team become situationally smart -- trying to understand what the offense is thinking on second-and-10; playing the strengths and playing the weaknesses on third downs." Derek Dooley

"Everybody here can be replaced; coaches, players -- everybody. Stick your hand in a bucket of water and pull it out. The hole that's left is how much people will miss you, at any job."
Jimbo Fisher

"You hope the surprises are more the guys who really maybe didn't flash in shorts but now they're showing up (at practice) because of their toughness and because of their explosive power. That shows up more in pads -- especially up front in the trenches. That's really what you're looking at." Derek Dooley

My theory is if we're not coaching it, we're letting it happen." Nick Saban