More from Bear Bryant
A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
Bear BryantBear Bryant 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.
Bear BryantBear Bryant Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.
Bear BryantBear Bryant 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.
Bear BryantBear Bryant I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.
Bear BryantBear Bryant Don’t give up. Reach down inside of you and you’ll find something left.
Bear BryantBear Bryant I ain’t never been nothin but a winner.
Bear BryantBear Bryant 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.
Bear BryantBear Bryant When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover – you can’t do both.
Bear BryantBear Bryant 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.
Bear BryantBear Bryant Don’t worry about making friends; don’t worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can’t hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can’t stand you.
Bear BryantBear Bryant You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.
Bear BryantBear Bryant Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
Bear BryantBear Bryant Don’t give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
Bear BryantBear Bryant 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.
Bear BryantBear Bryant They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.
Bear BryantBear Bryant
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We were dirt poor but we had each other. We didn’t need much to have a lot.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov One quick sip of your memory I let it slip, and I go on without you.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers If the scars on my heart were visible to the naked eye, maybe you’d think twice about inflicting more.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney I am getting better at forgetting you. I am slowly but steadily learning the art of forgetting you.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia Paper and pen petrify me, for they pierce right through me, drawing deep blue blood, leaving me utterly cold.
Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi Spend time with people who get excited over even the smallest victories you earn.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis I wonder if you were the poison or the antidote.
Ginnie BaleGinnie Bale
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An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze I have lived too many lives to be only one thing, and instead of attempting to mesh them into a form of a human being, I have decided to love every jagged edge of mine.
Hinnah MianHinnah Mian Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
David OgilvyDavid Ogilvy There’s something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There’s something very there’s safety in that.
Nicole KidmanNicole Kidman
