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Nick Saban on Mental Toughness and what does it take to break you

25 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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This YouTube video (Fortitude 365 upload) features a short monologue by a coach—identified by the retrieval title as Nick Saban—about mental toughness in football. The speaker asks "What does it take to break you?" and emphasizes that players must not let mistakes or setbacks (missed blocks, missed tackles, fumbles, losing on the last play) carry over and degrade subsequent performance; sustained mental toughness is required to perform at a high level through camp and the season.

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What does it take to break you? I'm not saying it's our goal to try to break you. It's just the way it is in football. When you go through camp, it's going to be difficult because you're getting yourself ready to play an entire season at a high level. So everybody here has got to have a lot of mental toughness to be able to sustain what we do at a high level. And just because you got beat on the last play, that can't affect your next play, or that's breaking you. Your frustration is breaking you. Just because you miss a block or you get blocked or you miss a tackle or you fumble the ball, what does it take to break you?