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Don’t worry about making friends; don’t worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can’t hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can’t stand you.

Bear Bryant

Losing doesn’t make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.
BEAR BRYANT

Believe Encouragement Fight Leadership Lose Myself Quit
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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Fun Inspirational Life Men Myself Old Win
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.
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Believe Easy Motivational Quit Sports Thinking Time Yourself
You’re still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don’t have genuine desire, you won’t be dedicated enough to prepare properly.
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Dedication Desire Enough Preparation Sports Win
In life, you’ll have your back up against the wall many times. You might as well get used to it.
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Hard Time Life Time Yourself
If they don’t have a winning attitude, I don’t want them.
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Attitude Leadership Myself Win
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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Hate Kind Men Myself Young
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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Leadership Learning Man Team Togetherness Yourself
Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
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Desire Game Greatness Sports Win
Have a plan. Follow the plan, and you’ll be surprised how successful you can be. Most people don’t have a plan. That’s why it’s easy to beat most folks.
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Easy Failure People Planning Success
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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Goodness Greatness Heart Leadership People Team
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
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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Goal Ideas Myself Planning War
A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
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Goodness Leadership Quick Sports Team Time
Expect the unexpected.
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Expectation One Liner Preparation
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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Alone Fun Game Loss Myself Preparation Sports Study

Don’t worry about making friends; don’t worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can’t hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can’t stand you.

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