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.
BEAR BRYANTIn a crisis, don’t hide behind anything or anybody. They’re going to find you anyway.
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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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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Don’t give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
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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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You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.
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If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, “Roll, Tide, Roll!”
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Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won’t do it unless my coaches tell me I’ve just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.
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Expect the unexpected.
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It’s kind of hard to rally around a math class.
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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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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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Don’t give up. Reach down inside of you and you’ll find something left.
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I ain’t never had much fun. I ain’t never been two inches away from a football. Here guys go fishing on the day of the game, hunting, golfing, and all I want to do is be alone, studying how not to lose.
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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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