Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don’t forget them when they leave.
BEAR BRYANTI’ve made so many mistakes that if I don’t make the same mistakes over, we’re going to come pretty close to winning.
More Bear Bryant Quotes
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Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
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In a crisis, don’t hide behind anything or anybody. They’re going to find you anyway.
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It really doesn’t cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable
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The Lord expects you to do some things for yourself.
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I can reach a kid who doesn’t have any ability as long as he doesn’t know it.
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There is no sin in not liking to play; it’s a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn’t want to.
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Losing doesn’t make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.
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I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.
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Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin’ and preachin’ were a lot alike.
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If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.
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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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A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
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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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I’ll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we’ll be champions.
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You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.
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If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
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There’s a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
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Don’t talk too much or too soon.
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When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover – you can’t do both.
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I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without it? If you can live without it, don’t get in it.
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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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No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it’s what his players know that counts.
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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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I’m no innovator. If anything I’m a stealer, or borrower. I’ve stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.
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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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