This week, @AlabamaFTBL head coach Nick Saban won a record seventh national title after his team defeated Ohio State.

Although Saban has proven to be one of the greatest college football coaches, that label hasn't come without scrutiny. #RollTide

Once, Vanderbilt head coach James Franklin referred to Saban as “Nicky Satan."

Another time, Saban’s own former assistants, Tim Davis called Saban “the devil himself.”

Saban doesn't particularly enjoy being compared to the devil.

He believes he's wildly misunderstood.

It's easy to hate Saban. He wins ... a lot.

He is also college football's highest-paid coach with a salary of $9.3 million.

To understand Saban, you need to first understand his father, Big Nick, the owner of a gas station and a Dairy Queen who died when Saban was in his 20s.

As a kid, Saban took the brunt of his father’s perfectionism, but he also learned about fairness & equality.

Like his dad, as much as Saban cares about football, he cares about the people playing it more.

He invests a lot of time & money to understand the way his players think.

Saban once hired a sports psychiatrist to develop full psychological profiles of each player so the coaches would know what buttons to push or not push.

Another time, he got actors to take players through improv exercises.

He's always looking for ways to gain a mental edge.

Saban obsesses over every aspect of preparation, from how his players dress at practice—no hats, earrings, or tank tops are allowed in the football facility—to how they hold their upper bodies when they run sprints.

"It’s not what you do, it’s how you do it."

“Champions are rare. Everybody has some chance, some opportunity to change and improve, but not everybody takes advantage. Be somebody who does.”

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