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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.

Bear Bryant

You try to make your team do something they’re not capable of and you get murdered.
BEAR BRYANT

Ability Death Team Yourself
I’m no innovator. If anything I’m a stealer, or borrower. I’ve stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.
BEAR BRYANT

Innovation Leadership Myself People Yourself
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.
BEAR BRYANT

Alone Fun Game Loss Myself Preparation Sports Study
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
They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.
BEAR BRYANT

Lose Myself Sports Teaching
Don’t talk too much or too soon.
BEAR BRYANT

Advice Early One Liner Talk
I can reach a kid who doesn’t have any ability as long as he doesn’t know it.
BEAR BRYANT

Ability Himself Reach Sports
There is no sin in not liking to play; it’s a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn’t want to.
BEAR BRYANT

Leadership Man Mistake Sin
Football changes and so do people.
BEAR BRYANT

Change People Sports
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.
BEAR BRYANT

Death Myself Sports Stop Win
Don’t talk too much. Don’t pop off. Don’t talk after the game until you cool off.
BEAR BRYANT

Advice Believe Game Leadership Talk
There’s no use fussing on a boy who doesn’t have any ability.
BEAR BRYANT

Ability Man Talk
There’s a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
BEAR BRYANT

Dream Inspirational Leadership Motivational Success
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.
BEAR BRYANT

Goodness Greatness Heart Leadership People Team
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.
BEAR BRYANT

Goal Ideas Myself Planning War
Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin’ and preachin’ were a lot alike.
BEAR BRYANT

Leadership Mom Myself
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.
BEAR BRYANT

Lose Myself Sports Study. Right Win
Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers.
BEAR BRYANT

Lose Motivational People Win
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.
BEAR BRYANT

Leadership Learning Man Team Togetherness Yourself
If they don’t have a winning attitude, I don’t want them.
BEAR BRYANT

Attitude Leadership Myself Win
Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
BEAR BRYANT

Desire Game Greatness Sports Win
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.
BEAR BRYANT

Easy Failure People Planning Success
The Lord expects you to do some things for yourself.
BEAR BRYANT

Expectation God Self Love Yourself
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
BEAR BRYANT

Care Character Inspirational Motivational Pride Success Win
If you don’t have discipline, you can’t have a successful program.
BEAR BRYANT

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

Believe Discipline Forget Leadership Leaving Sacrifice Teaching
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.
BEAR BRYANT

Believe Easy Motivational Quit Sports Thinking Time 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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