Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
BEAR BRYANT
I don’t hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they’re not brighter than I am, I don’t need them.
More Bear Bryant Quotes
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Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
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There’s no use fussing on a boy who doesn’t have any ability.
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The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.
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A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.
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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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All I know is, I don’t want to stop coaching, and I don’t want to stop winning, so we’re gonna break the record unless I die.
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The first time you quit, it’s hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don’t even have to think about it.
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If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it’s my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.
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There is no substitute for guts.
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People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don’t share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.
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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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Set goals – high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.
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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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If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
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Don’t talk too much. Don’t pop off. Don’t talk after the game until you cool off.
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I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.
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