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.
BEAR BRYANTNever be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
More Bear Bryant Quotes
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Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
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Don’t talk too much. Don’t pop off. Don’t talk after the game until you cool off.
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There’s no use fussing on a boy who doesn’t have any ability.
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I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without it? If you can live without it, don’t get in it.
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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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The Lord expects you to do some things for yourself.
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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.
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When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover – you can’t do both.
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A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
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I’ll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we’ll be champions.
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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.
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If you don’t have discipline, you can’t have a successful program.
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They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.
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Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers.
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You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.
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Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.
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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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If they don’t have a winning attitude, I don’t want them.
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Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
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Losing doesn’t make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.
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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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I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.
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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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No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it’s what his players know that counts.
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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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There is no substitute for guts.
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