I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.
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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No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it’s what his players know that counts.
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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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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 fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
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It really doesn’t cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable
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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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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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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 can reach a kid who doesn’t have any ability as long as he doesn’t know it.
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If they don’t have a winning attitude, I don’t want them.
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There’s a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
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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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Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers.
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A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
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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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