Jalen Milroe reveals the greatest lesson he learned from Nick Saban, how he uses it everyday

Jalen Milroe learned quite a bit during his time under Nick Saban and going into his final year at Alabama, one lesson sticks out.

It may sound cliche, or outrageous if you’re a Philadelphia 76ers fan, but it’s trusting the process. Milroe lived by that adage every day and will do so this fall.

Even with Saban in retirement, that lesson stuck with the Alabama quarterback

“There’s so many things I learned from Coach Saban and it’s hard to narrow down one, but if I was to choose one, I say trust the process,” Milroe said on Get Up. “Every process is different when it comes to just trusting your journey. And as a guy that came in from Texas, and being acclimated to the new environment in Alabama, and how you push every single day to accomplish any goal that you want to achieve, there’s adversity that comes along the process. 

“There are times of self doubt, there’s times where you have to push through hard circumstances and throughout that time, never waver from that. And it comes from a leader in coach Saban, pushing each and every day to be the best you, that’s very important. Just kind of go 1-0 each and every day, and just trying to attack the day at hand and it’s all about trusting the process.”

Jalen Milroe living by Nick Saban’s words

Everything Milroe puts himself through now is to set up for the future. On the field, it could turn him into a Heisman candidate and a sought after NFL prospect when it’s all said and done.

“It’s all about sacrificing everything now to get everything in your future,” Milroe said. “And so when it comes to the offseason, there’s four stages. Number one, it’s the fourth quarter process. That’s our first opportunity as a team to go through adversity as a group and just our conditioning period is fighting through those battles. Then transitioning into spring ball, spring ball now you install the plays as a group coming together as one. 

“Then summer one, then summer two. So with those processes, it allows you to grow as a player on and off the field and those are things that are done in the dark that come and shine on Saturday when it’s time to play. And so with that, it’s all about reps, reps and reps and repetition and just growing in your confidence. When we talk about process, that’s the process right there that leads us to having a successful season.”