Alabama Coach Quotes

Listen, does your boy know how to work? Try to teach him to work, to sacrifice, to fight. He better learn now, because he’s going to have to do it some day. Lloyd Hale was a sophomore on that first team we took to Junction, and he asked me one time what I meant by “fight.” Well, I don’t mean fistfight, like we used to do back in Arkansas, I told him. I mean, some morning when you’ve been out of school twenty years and you wake up and your house has burned down and your mother is in the hospital and the kids are all sick and you’re overdrawn at the bank and your wife has run off with the drummer, what are you going to do? Throw in?

This was tricky. They had, right now, at home, boxes of letters addressed to Michael from college football coaches and boosters and just people who wanted to get to know the future star. They had a personal letter from Congressman Harold Ford Jr., who seemed to want to become Michael’s friend, and a stack of letters from a football coach at the University of Alabama, who seemed prepared to offer his hand in marriage.

By my last year at Alabama in 2015, it was the older players—not the coaches—who usually explained the program’s values to the younger ones. The veterans enforced the value system and made sure everyone lived up to it.

academic requirements, helping them navigate

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scholarship student athletes. This includes preparing

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You’re not entitled to the outcome. You’re entitled to the opportunity to get the outcome.

University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban once said, “I don’t want to waste a failure.

Create a sense of urgency 2.​Create a guiding coalition 3.​Develop a vision and strategy 4.​Communicate the change vision 5.​Empower action 6.​Generate short-term wins 7.​Consolidate gains and empower more change 8.​Anchor change in the culture

Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.

If you don’t have the time to do it right, where do you find the time to do it over? Because it’s going to be done right.” He

you take over an organization, you need to identify and empower valuable allies who can carry out your change directives.

You’re not entitled to the outcome. You’re entitled to the opportunity to get the outcome.” When you set clear expectations from the beginning, it eliminates most potential headaches in the future.