Nick Saban on Control the Controllables.mp4

Player come to me last year and said, I'm frustrated. I want to transfer because I'm not playing. First thing I say, well, who are you better than at your position? Nobody. Guy said, nobody. I said, well, my job is to play the best players. And your focus and frustration is all based on where you are in the depth chart. But how about what you need to do to be a complete player at your position? What have you done to develop the benchmarks of what you need to do to be a complete player at your position so that. But you can compete to your capacity and play to your capacity and quit worrying about everybody else. You know Bolt, that guy that ran the Olympics from Jamaica? I love what he said after he won the race. He said, you know, I don't. I don't even know who I was running against. I don't know anybody else that's in the race. I train, I prepare, I focus to run my best race. That's what I control. That's what I do. And that's what we need to get these young people to do now so that they have a chance to be successful.