Deion Sanders defends Florida State playoff snub: ‘This is entertainment, but this is business.’
"There's no way you're going to leave Coach Saban and Alabama out of a playoff."
"There's no way you're going to leave Coach Saban and Alabama out of a playoff."
"That really sat with me, because I came to Alabama for the standard."
"I hate it that we're not gonna continue this relationship."
"I understand what Dan Lanning was trying to say, and it's probably good for his team to hear in some ways. But it probably wasn't good for everyone else to hear."
Nick Saban blasted his own team before anyone else could.
"Look, you didn't ask a bad question the other night. I just didn't answer it very well."
Fox surprised its newest analyst with his former college coach on Saturday morning.
"Saban "has spent 3.42% of his total preseason press conference time smiling in 2023. That’s more than double the percentage of any year from 2017 onward."
"Don’t bully people cause you can."
What did Sage Steele tell the Alabama football team?
"I think, yes, you have to."
The brazenness was profound.
This is pretty on brand for Nick Saban, who like Bill Belichick and Gregg Popovich, often has his petulance with the media excused.
"How about the church of what’s happening now? Can we focus on what’s happening now?"
"If he wasn’t interested, he never would have done it in the first place."
"One guy is a known felon. He was convicted of murder at a very young age. I jokingly said to the next (caller) 'Don’t tell me you served time in prison too.' He said 'Absolutely.'"
"You guys gave us a lot of really positive rat poison. The rat poison that you usually give us is usually fatal. But the rat poison that you put out there this week was yummy."
"Do I finally get to meet the boss?"
It was really more of a toss, upon review.
Battle went in an unconventional direction when asked what Saban sayings stand out to him.
"So I'm not the only one who gets that way."
Premiering Dec. 10 on HBO, Belichick and Saban: The Art of Coaching will cover those coaches' almost four-decade-long friendship.
"This is one of those headset things where you break your headsets, right?"
Saban allowed ESPN to film an all-access series at training camp this year after years of turning those requests down, and also quickly apologized to ESPN's Maria Taylor after being rude during an interview.