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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.

Bear Bryant

Football changes and so do people.
BEAR BRYANT

Change People Sports
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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Leadership Myself Thinking Young
You try to make your team do something they’re not capable of and you get murdered.
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Ability Death Team Yourself
The first time you quit, it’s hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don’t even have to think about it.
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Believe Easy Motivational Quit Sports Thinking Time Yourself
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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Bad Game Leadership Myself People Sacrifice Success Yourself
Don’t talk too much or too soon.
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Advice Early One Liner Talk
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.
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Creation Goal Goodness Leadership People Teamwork
A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
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Goodness Leadership Quick Sports Team Time
I don’t hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they’re not brighter than I am, I don’t need them.
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Better Myself Need
You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.
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Game Motivational Strength Weakness Win Yourself
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.
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Mistake Myself Win
Be aware of “yes” men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget – people win.
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Believe Forget Leadership Lose Man People Sports Win
Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin’ and preachin’ were a lot alike.
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Leadership Mom Myself
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.
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Leadership Man Mistake Sin
The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.
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Price Reward Victory
The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
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Change Fun Lose Win

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 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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