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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.

Bear Bryant

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.
BEAR BRYANT

Fun Inspirational Life Men Myself Old Win
I ain’t never had much fun. I ain’t never been two inches away from a football. Here guys go fishing on the day of the game, hunting, golfing, and all I want to do is be alone, studying how not to lose.
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Alone Fun Game Loss Myself Preparation Sports Study
In a crisis, don’t hide behind anything or anybody. They’re going to find you anyway.
BEAR BRYANT

Believe Hide Sports Yourself
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 BRYANT

Creation Goal Goodness Leadership People Teamwork
You try to make your team do something they’re not capable of and you get murdered.
BEAR BRYANT

Ability Death Team Yourself
Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right.
BEAR BRYANT

Lose Myself Sports Study. Right Win
The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.
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Price Reward Victory
If they don’t have a winning attitude, I don’t want them.
BEAR BRYANT

Attitude Leadership Myself Win
There is no substitute for guts.
BEAR BRYANT

Courage One Liner
A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
BEAR BRYANT

Goodness Leadership Quick Sports Team Time
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.
BEAR BRYANT

Goal Ideas Myself Planning War
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.
BEAR BRYANT

Believe Inspirational Mistake Yourself
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.
BEAR BRYANT

Leadership Learning Man Team Togetherness Yourself
I can reach a kid who doesn’t have any ability as long as he doesn’t know it.
BEAR BRYANT

Ability Himself Reach Sports
People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don’t share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.
BEAR BRYANT

Goodness Greatness Heart Leadership People Team
Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
BEAR BRYANT

Desire Game Greatness Sports Win

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 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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