I’m no genius, but I’m a damn good football coach.
BEAR BRYANTIf 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.
More Bear Bryant Quotes
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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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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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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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If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.
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There’s no use fussing on a boy who doesn’t have any ability.
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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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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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Recognize winners. They come in all forms.
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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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The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.
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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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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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A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.
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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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No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it’s what his players know that counts.
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