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Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

Bear Bryant

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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Bad Game Leadership Myself People Sacrifice Success Yourself
Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
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Desire Game Greatness Sports Win
Don’t talk too much. Don’t pop off. Don’t talk after the game until you cool off.
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Advice Believe Game Leadership Talk
There’s no use fussing on a boy who doesn’t have any ability.
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Ability Man Talk
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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Leadership Myself Thinking Young
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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Feeling Glory Motivational Sports Teamwork Unity
The Lord expects you to do some things for yourself.
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Expectation God Self Love 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.
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Innovation Leadership Myself People Yourself
When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover – you can’t do both.
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Leadership Play Sports Storm Yourself
A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
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Goodness Leadership Quick Sports Team Time
I’ll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we’ll be champions.
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End Hell Myself Winn
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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Basketball Believe Leadership
If you don’t have discipline, you can’t have a successful program.
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Discipline Success Yourself
They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.
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Lose Myself Sports Teaching
Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers.
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Lose Motivational People Win
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.
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Advice Animal Hard Time Yourself
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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Difference Leadership Motivational Perfection Preparation Sports Win
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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Lose Myself Sports Study. Right Win
If they don’t have a winning attitude, I don’t want them.
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Attitude Leadership Myself Win
Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
BEAR BRYANT

Attitude Prayer Proud Yourself
Losing doesn’t make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.
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Believe Encouragement Fight Leadership Lose Myself Quit
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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Believe Inspirational Mistake Yourself
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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Game Myself Practice Quit Reality
I can reach a kid who doesn’t have any ability as long as he doesn’t know it.
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Ability Himself Reach Sports
No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it’s what his players know that counts.
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Game Himself Sports Team Work Win
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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Creation Goal Goodness Leadership People Teamwork
There is no substitute for guts.
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Courage One Liner

Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

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