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Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don’t forget them when they leave.

Bear Bryant

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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Enemy Friendship Hurt Support Win Worry Yourself
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
I’m no genius, but I’m a damn good football coach.
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Ability Genius Myself
There’s a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
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Dream Inspirational Leadership Motivational Success
If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.
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Ein Pay Play Price Worth
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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Fun Inspirational Life Men Myself Old Win
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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Hard Time Life Time Yourself
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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Believe Dedication Inspirational Price Quit Reward Strength Success Victory Winner Yourself
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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Dedication Desire Enough Preparation Sports Win
It really doesn’t cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable
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Imagination Kindness Reward
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
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
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
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
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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Myself Oneself Sports Thinking
They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.
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Lose Myself Sports Teaching
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
You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.
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Game Motivational Strength Weakness Win Yourself
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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Ability Development Give Up Himself Leadership Myself
There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.
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Difference Inspirational Willing
There is no substitute for guts.
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Courage One Liner
A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.
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Inspirational Motivational Pay Price
The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
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Change Fun Lose Win
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
A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
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Goodness Leadership Quick Sports Team Time
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
Don’t talk too much or too soon.
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Advice Early One Liner Talk

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