No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it’s what his players know that counts.
BEAR BRYANTIf you don’t have discipline, you can’t have a successful program.
More Bear Bryant Quotes
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I didn’t have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn’t want to. But I didn’t think they’d pick one I didn’t like.
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Don’t talk too much or too soon.
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I’ll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we’ll be champions.
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I’m no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work.
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I told them my system was based on the “ant plan,” that I’d gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal.
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You try to make your team do something they’re not capable of and you get murdered.
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A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.
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I’m no genius, but I’m a damn good football coach.
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A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
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I’ve made so many mistakes that if I don’t make the same mistakes over, we’re going to come pretty close to winning.
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Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
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Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won’t do it unless my coaches tell me I’ve just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.
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In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I’ve had is winning, and that’s ridiculous.
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Don’t give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
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You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they’ve got one heartbeat. Then you’ve got yourself a team.
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