You try to make your team do something they’re not capable of and you get murdered.
BEAR BRYANTWhen 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.
More Bear Bryant Quotes
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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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You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.
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I’m no genius, but I’m a damn good football coach.
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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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Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don’t forget them when they leave.
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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 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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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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No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it’s what his players know that counts.
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In life, you’ll have your back up against the wall many times. You might as well get used to it.
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Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
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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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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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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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Don’t tolerate lazy people. They are losers.
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