The first time you quit, it’s hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don’t even have to think about it.
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’ll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we’ll be champions.
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A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.
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Football changes and so do people.
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If they don’t have a winning attitude, I don’t want them.
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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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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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Recognize winners. They come in all forms.
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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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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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You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.
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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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I don’t hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they’re not brighter than I am, I don’t need them.
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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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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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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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