When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don’t repeat it.
BEAR BRYANTSet 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.
More Bear Bryant Quotes
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I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.
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If you don’t have discipline, you can’t have a successful program.
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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 try to make your team do something they’re not capable of and you get murdered.
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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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Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don’t forget them when they leave.
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There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.
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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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It really doesn’t cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable
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The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
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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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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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Don’t give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
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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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If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.
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They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.
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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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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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I’ve made so many mistakes that if I don’t make the same mistakes over, we’re going to come pretty close to winning.
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There’s a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
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If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
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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.
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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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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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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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