Colleen Hartman Rambusch

Nick Saban says his dad had a rule when he worked at the family service station as an 11 year old that he carried into coaching, if you didn’t do the job right you did it again “Treat people the way you want to be treated... That was number one... The second thing was accountability. We grew up with a lot of responsibility. I worked at my dad’s service station from the time I was 11 years old.” “I don’t care what the task was, there was always a reckoning. Did you cut the grass? Did you trim? Did you sweep? Did you clean the mower? And if you didn’t do all those things right, you had to do it over.” “I remember my dad saying to me, ‘If you don’t have the time to do it right the first time, how are you going to find the time to do it over?’” “Because you are going to do it over. So accountability was really important. And the last thing was, and this was probably the thing that helped me always look for the next challenge was, no matter how many games you win, it’s never good enough... I asked my mom, ‘it’s never good enough, how come?’ And she said ‘It’s not about beating the other guy, it’s about, did you play as good as you could play.’ We're you as good as you can be? As a leader, as a player, as a teammate.”