I’d like for people to remember me as a winner, because I ain’t never been nothin but a winner.
BEAR BRYANTIn my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I’ve had is winning, and that’s ridiculous.
More Bear Bryant Quotes
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If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.
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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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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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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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Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
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Expect the unexpected.
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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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You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.
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It really doesn’t cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable
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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.
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Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
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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.
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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’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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A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
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