If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It’s in my blood.
BEAR BRYANTMama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin’ and preachin’ were a lot alike.
More Bear Bryant Quotes
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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.
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It’s not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.
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A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
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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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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.
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I’m no genius, but I’m a damn good football coach.
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Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
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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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If you don’t have discipline, you can’t have a successful program.
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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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I’d like for people to remember me as a winner, because I ain’t never been nothin but a winner.
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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 they don’t have a winning attitude, I don’t want them.
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A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.
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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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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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Don’t talk too much. Don’t pop off. Don’t talk after the game until you cool off.
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You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.
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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 a big difference in wanting to and willing to.
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Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers.
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You’re still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don’t have genuine desire, you won’t be dedicated enough to prepare properly.
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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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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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I’ll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we’ll be champions.
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Football changes and so do people.
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