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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

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
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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Innovation Leadership Myself People Yourself
In a crisis, don’t hide behind anything or anybody. They’re going to find you anyway.
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Believe Hide Sports Yourself
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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Ability Goodness Help Leadership Myself Pay People Price Recognize Winner
I’d like for people to remember me as a winner, because I ain’t never been nothin but a winner.
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Attitude Inspirational People Remember Winner
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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Feeling Glory Motivational Sports Teamwork Unity
Don’t talk too much or too soon.
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Advice Early One Liner Talk
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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Goal Ideas Myself Planning War
If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.
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Inspirational Motivational Sports Success
Have a plan. Follow the plan, and you’ll be surprised how successful you can be. Most people don’t have a plan. That’s why it’s easy to beat most folks.
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Easy Failure People Planning Success
Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.
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Difference Leadership Motivational Perfection Preparation Sports Win
A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
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Goodness Leadership Quick Sports Team Time
It’s not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.
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Inspirational Preparation Sports Willing Win
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.
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Believe Inspirational Mistake Yourself
Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don’t forget them when they leave.
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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.
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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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