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.
BEAR BRYANTA good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
More Bear Bryant Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.
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A few minutes ago, I had a hard time getting through the lobby because of all the people. After today, that won’t be happening.
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You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.
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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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The Lord expects you to do some things for yourself.
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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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Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
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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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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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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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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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