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.
BEAR BRYANTThe fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
More Bear Bryant Quotes
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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 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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In 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.
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Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers.
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A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
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Don’t give up. Reach down inside of you and you’ll find something left.
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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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There is no sin in not liking to play; it’s a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn’t want to.
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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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There is no substitute for guts.
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Don’t give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
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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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You try to make your team do something they’re not capable of and you get murdered.
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I’d like for people to remember me as a winner, because I ain’t never been nothin but a winner.
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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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