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.
BEAR BRYANTDon’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.
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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No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it’s what his players know that counts.
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Football changes and so do people.
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All I know is, I don’t want to stop coaching, and I don’t want to stop winning, so we’re gonna break the record unless I die.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t give up. Reach down inside of you and you’ll find something left.
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Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin’ and preachin’ were a lot alike.
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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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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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I ain’t never been nothin but a winner.
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There is no substitute for guts.
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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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