Don’t talk too much or too soon.
BEAR BRYANTYou 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.
More Bear Bryant Quotes
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Losing doesn’t make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.
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You try to make your team do something they’re not capable of and you get murdered.
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Expect the unexpected.
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There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.
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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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If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It’s in my blood.
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Don’t give up. Reach down inside of you and you’ll find something left.
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You’re still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don’t have genuine desire, you won’t be dedicated enough to prepare properly.
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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.
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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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Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin’ and preachin’ were a lot alike.
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Don’t give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
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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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Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right.
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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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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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I’ll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we’ll be champions.
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They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.
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A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.
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Football changes and so do people.
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There’s a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
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There’s no use fussing on a boy who doesn’t have any ability.
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If they don’t have a winning attitude, I don’t want them.
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You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.
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It’s kind of hard to rally around a math class.
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The Lord expects you to do some things for yourself.
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