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He guided LSU to its first football championship in forty-five years. He turned down countless offers from professional teams to stay with the job he loves. Now Nick Saban reveals the secrets that will help you lead and succeed at work and in life.Excellence doesnt happen overnight. It comes from hard work, consistency, the drive to be the best, and a passion for what you do. Few understand this better than Nick Saban, the hottest college football coach in the game. Now, in How Good Do You Want to Be?, Saban shares his winning philosophy for creating and inspiring success.In more than three decades as a player and coach, Saban has learned much about life and leadership, both on the field and off. Working alongside some of the games legends, including Super Bowl winner Bill Belichick and coaching legend Jerry Glanville, he saw firsthand how great leaders encourage greatness in others. In this candid, insightful guide, he shares such acquired wisdom as Organization, Organization, Organization
Create an environment where everybody knows his or her responsibilitiesand each is responsible to the entire group. Motivate to Dominate
Understand the psychology of teams and individuals, and use that knowledge to breed success. No Other Way than Right
Practice ethics and valuesand demand the same from your team. Look in the Mirror
Maintain an understanding of who you are by knowing your strengths and your weaknesses.How Good Do You Want to Be? is more than the story of how Nick Saban motivates his staff and players to excelit is also the memoir of one of Americas most successful coaches. Filled with instructive anecdotes and illuminated by never-before-told stories of his life and career, this is a book that challenges and inspires us all to be our best.
Create an environment where everybody knows his or her responsibilitiesand each is responsible to the entire group. Motivate to Dominate
Understand the psychology of teams and individuals, and use that knowledge to breed success. No Other Way than Right
Practice ethics and valuesand demand the same from your team. Look in the Mirror
Maintain an understanding of who you are by knowing your strengths and your weaknesses.How Good Do You Want to Be? is more than the story of how Nick Saban motivates his staff and players to excelit is also the memoir of one of Americas most successful coaches. Filled with instructive anecdotes and illuminated by never-before-told stories of his life and career, this is a book that challenges and inspires us all to be our best.
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Liza Ireni Saban
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To Terry, Nicholas, and Kristen
My loving family
My loving family
Acknowledgments
When I first thought about writing this book, I wanted to be sure to acknowledge everyone who has affected my career in a positive way. It is from others that I gained the knowledge and experience that have helped elevate me to this level in the coaching profession. Every mentor, every head coach, and all the assistants with whom I have come in contact over the years have influenced me and my coaching philosophy. This shared knowledge and experience is much appreciated and certainly has contributed to any success I have been fortunate enough to experience in my profession.
Special thanks to my family, especially my wife, Terry, the children, and my wonderful parents, who have supported me my entire playing and coaching career. Terry has contributed far more than anyone could realize in creating a balance personally and professionally that has made happiness an appreciated part of the journey.
One special person has taught me more about human behavior and influenced my philosophy about attitude development more than anyone else. My good friend Dr. Lonny Rosen, a professor of psychiatry, has been a close associate for almost twenty years. He has contributed more to the philosophy you will read in the following pages than anyone else. I cant thank him enough for his time, wisdom, and friendship.
Finally, a thank-you to the young men whom I have coached over the last thirty years, who have proven this philosophy to be true, but who have also provided me with an education through their response to the positive approach of How Good Do You Want to Be?
FOREWORD
Committed to Winning
Bill Belichick, Head Coach, the New England Patriots
Committed to winning. It sounds so simple, but over thirty years in coaching Ive seen so many coaches, teams, and programs get off-track. For any team, company, or individual striving for success, there are an incredible number of factors to weigh, obstacles to overcome, forces with which to contend. It is all too easy to get distracted or be defeated. But Nick Sabans commitment to winning is as pure and effective as exists anywhere in the game. I know firsthand that he has both a mastery of self-improvement and the management skills required to teach a large group of people how to adopt and implement a single, coherent vision.
So how does he do it?
To begin with, he is exceptionally bright. Nick and I worked together for four years and have been friends and colleagues for two decades, and there is no doubt that I have learned more from him than he has from me. He is an extremely intelligent personand that extends well beyond football. Like any great coach, he understands people first and foremosthe knows that different people respond differently to a management style.
More than that, though, he has strength, tenacity, and energy. Nick uses the word relentless when stressing to his team the necessary approach to the game. In this profession, nobody demonstrates the meaning of that word as much as Nick. One of the most amazing things about Nick is, as relentless as he is, as detailed as he is, and as much as he controls the pulse of every last aspect of his football program, he never looks or acts tired. It really is a special quality, one that must enhance his stature as a leader.
Nick is also extremely intense. In other words, he will never accept mediocrity. It takes a special person to be able to thrive in Nicks system, as he demands accountability and respects only people who are willing to take responsibility for their actions at all times. And even though he is as driven as any person in football, that intensity is matched by the supreme respect he commands from those around him.
Maybe most important of all, Nick is all about focuson one thing. Whether it is the next opponent, the next practice, or the next recruit, he has the abilityat any given timeto devote his absolute attention and energy to solving the problem or challenge at hand before moving on to the next one.
As you can see, Nick Saban is one of the most complete coaches I have ever met. Most coaches have strengths in different areas, but Nick is strong in virtually every aspect of the game: recruiting, motivation, knowledge of schemes and techniques, communication, and managing personnel. He succeeds by at all times exhibiting traits crucial to any leaderamong them intelligence, strength, tenacity, energy, intensity, and focus. He succeeds because, above all, he is committed to winning. We can all learn some important lessons about leadership from Nickand in this book, you most certainly will.
Not only does Nick develop outstanding young men on the football field, but he has an impressive ability to develop young coaches as well. He prepares them for anything, and once they arrive at the NFL level, they have a definite advantage over the competition. Our Patriots staff alonea staff talented and fortunate enough to have made its team the world champion last yearhas three coaches groomed by Nick, proving that his professional lineage thrives. And Nick was absolutely instrumental in developing the criteria we use for scouting and drafting defensive players. A large share of the credit for the Patriots drafting of defensive players is a result of the player profiles we created in Cleveland.
So enjoy this book, and pay attention: This is real wisdom from a true leader.
Introduction
Fairmont, West Virginia, is listed as my hometown, but we actually lived between the towns of Fairmont and Clarksburg. It really didnt matter, though, since most coal mining towns looked the same. It had been that way for generations. Ever since the hills of West Virginia were opened up by miners, men have come from around the world to earn a living from the earth. In my earliest days, I saw men of all shapes and sizes, races and nationalities, come together every morning at dawn to spend twelve-hour shifts five hundred feet below the surface. There was the promise of good pay, stability, and solid working conditionsand there was the reality of low pay and early death. Fires, cave-ins, and lung disease picked men off just like they scoured coal from the earth. Most never smiled before they took the shaft down in the morning, and if they smiled on the way up at dusk, you couldnt see it on their ash-covered faces. Mining is what men did in these parts. And it is what their sons did, too, when they could.
Who knew back then where my lifes journey would take me? In fact, the path that started in West Virginia led me to Akron, Syracuse, Morgantown, Columbus, Annapolis, East Lansing, Houston, Toledo, Cleveland, back to East Lansing, and, finally, to Baton Rouge. With my wife, Terry, by my side, and my two children, Nicholas and Kristen, in tow, I have enjoyed the journey in so many ways. There have been exhilarating wins and humiliating losses, adversity and achievement, frustration and success.
As a football coach, I have been fortunate to have learned the game from some of the great mentors: Don James, Earle Bruce, George Perles, Bill Belichick, and Jerry Glanville. I learned, as well, from my high school coaches, Earl Keener and Joe Ross, and from my father, Nick Sr., who first ingrained in me the principles of the game. As a person, I owe so much to my parents, Nick and Mary, my sister, Diana, my grandparents, my in-laws, and, of course, Terry and the kids.
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