I can reach a kid who doesn’t have any ability as long as he doesn’t know it.
BEAR BRYANTIf you don’t have discipline, you can’t have a successful program.
More Bear Bryant Quotes
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You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.
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There’s no use fussing on a boy who doesn’t have any ability.
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In a crisis, don’t hide behind anything or anybody. They’re going to find you anyway.
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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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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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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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If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.
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Expect the unexpected.
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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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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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Recognize winners. They come in all forms.
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The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.
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Don’t worry about making friends; don’t worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can’t hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can’t stand you.
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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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A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
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