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 BRYANTI 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.
More Bear Bryant Quotes
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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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There’s no use fussing on a boy who doesn’t have any ability.
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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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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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You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.
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Don’t give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
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If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.
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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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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 miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work.
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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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When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover – you can’t do both.
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Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don’t forget them when they leave.
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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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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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If you don’t have discipline, you can’t have a successful program.
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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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When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don’t repeat it.
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Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
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Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers.
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I’ll never give up on a player regardless of his ability as long as he never gives up on himself. In time he will develop.
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There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.
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They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.
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The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.
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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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A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
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