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.
BEAR BRYANTSacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don’t forget them when they leave.
More Bear Bryant Quotes
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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’m no genius, but I’m a damn good football coach.
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There’s a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
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If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.
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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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In life, you’ll have your back up against the wall many times. You might as well get used to it.
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If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
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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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It really doesn’t cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable
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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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In a crisis, don’t hide behind anything or anybody. They’re going to find you anyway.
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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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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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I didn’t have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn’t want to. But I didn’t think they’d pick one I didn’t like.
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They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.
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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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You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.
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I’ll never give up on a player regardless of his ability as long as he never gives up on himself. In time he will develop.
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There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.
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There is no substitute for guts.
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A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.
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The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
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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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A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
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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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Don’t talk too much or too soon.
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