If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It’s in my blood.
BEAR BRYANTI didn’t have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn’t want to. But I didn’t think they’d pick one I didn’t like.
More Bear Bryant Quotes
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In a crisis, don’t hide behind anything or anybody. They’re going to find you anyway.
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You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.
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If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.
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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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Don’t give up. Reach down inside of you and you’ll find something left.
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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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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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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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Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
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The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
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If you don’t have discipline, you can’t have a successful program.
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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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Don’t talk too much. Don’t pop off. Don’t talk after the game until you cool off.
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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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There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.
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Recognize winners. They come in all forms.
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It’s kind of hard to rally around a math class.
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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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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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I’ll never give up on a player regardless of his ability as long as he never gives up on himself. In time he will develop.
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Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
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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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Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.
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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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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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