Top Highlights

• “Well, you didn’t. I’m nothing without my players,” Saban said, locking eyes with Moore. “But you did just hire a helluva recruiter.”
• Most of the dread he felt, though, came from the fact that he already knew what he wanted to do. The NFL was not for him.
• If it were totally up to Saban, he would stay with the Dolphins and give Huizenga what he believed he owed him. But the decision wasn’t his alone.
• He learned to derive pleasure and satisfaction in the very act of doing. Put another way, Saban, at a very young age, learned to embrace and love the process of doing.
• “If you don’t do better in school, if you don’t get a college education, this is where you will end up,” he told Saban. “Is this what you want? Do you want to end up down here for the rest of your life?” Saban started to sing in music class.