You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.
BEAR BRYANTI’ve made so many mistakes that if I don’t make the same mistakes over, we’re going to come pretty close to winning.
More Bear Bryant Quotes
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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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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’m no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work.
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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.
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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.
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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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They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.
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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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Don’t give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
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It’s kind of hard to rally around a math class.
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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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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.
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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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In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.
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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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