There is no sin in not liking to play; it’s a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn’t want to.
BEAR BRYANTIf you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, “Roll, Tide, Roll!”
More Bear Bryant Quotes
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If they don’t have a winning attitude, I don’t want them.
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It’s kind of hard to rally around a math class.
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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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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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Don’t talk too much or too soon.
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In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.
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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.
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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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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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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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Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don’t forget them when they leave.
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The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.
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A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.
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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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When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover – you can’t do both.
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