Recognize winners. They come in all forms.
BEAR BRYANT
BEAR BRYANT
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Expect the unexpected.
Bear BryantBear Bryant Losing doesn’t make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.
Bear BryantBear Bryant If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.
Bear BryantBear Bryant A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
Bear BryantBear Bryant 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.
Bear BryantBear Bryant Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.
Bear BryantBear Bryant Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won’t do it unless my coaches tell me I’ve just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.
Bear BryantBear Bryant 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 BryantBear Bryant Don’t give up. Reach down inside of you and you’ll find something left.
Bear BryantBear Bryant I ain’t never been nothin but a winner.
Bear BryantBear Bryant I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.
Bear BryantBear Bryant When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover – you can’t do both.
Bear BryantBear Bryant Set goals – high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.
Bear BryantBear 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.
Bear BryantBear Bryant You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.
Bear BryantBear Bryant Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
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From our community writers
They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
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To have attained to the human form is a source of joy. What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.
ZhuangziZhuangzi To have a human form is a joyful thing.
ZhuangziZhuangzi She is love in its purest form; her arms, the safest place I’ve known. She is the scent of home; the warrior who carried me in her womb.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia The form is always the measure of the obsession.
Alberto GiacomettiAlberto Giacometti If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.
Antonin ArtaudAntonin Artaud When we speak the word ‘life,’ it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
Antonin ArtaudAntonin Artaud An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.
Maxim GorkyMaxim Gorky I stare at your lips and fall in love with the way they form what you say.
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