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 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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If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, “Roll, Tide, Roll!”
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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’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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Losing doesn’t make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.
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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 talk too much or too soon.
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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 a big difference in wanting to and willing to.
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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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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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The Lord expects you to do some things for yourself.
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There is no substitute for guts.
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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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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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A few minutes ago, I had a hard time getting through the lobby because of all the people. After today, that won’t be happening.
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