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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.

Bear Bryant

They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.
BEAR BRYANT

Lose Myself Sports Teaching
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.
BEAR BRYANT

Advice Animal Hard Time Yourself
Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don’t forget them when they leave.
BEAR BRYANT

Believe Discipline Forget Leadership Leaving Sacrifice Teaching
I don’t hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they’re not brighter than I am, I don’t need them.
BEAR BRYANT

Better Myself Need
If they don’t have a winning attitude, I don’t want them.
BEAR BRYANT

Attitude Leadership Myself Win
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
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.
BEAR BRYANT

Alone Fun Game Loss Myself Preparation Sports Study
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
The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.
BEAR BRYANT

Price Reward Victory
Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
BEAR BRYANT

Attitude Prayer Proud Yourself
I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.
BEAR BRYANT

Game Myself Practice Quit Reality
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.
BEAR BRYANT

Mistake Myself Win
The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
BEAR BRYANT

Change Fun Lose Win
Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.
BEAR BRYANT

Difference Leadership Motivational Perfection Preparation Sports Win
It’s not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.
BEAR BRYANT

Inspirational Preparation Sports Willing Win
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

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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