You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.
BEAR BRYANTMost coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right.
More Bear Bryant Quotes
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Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers.
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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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I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without it? If you can live without it, don’t get in it.
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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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If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, “Roll, Tide, Roll!”
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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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A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.
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The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.
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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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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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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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There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.
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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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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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I 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.
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Losing doesn’t make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.
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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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If they don’t have a winning attitude, I don’t want them.
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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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A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
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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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If you don’t have discipline, you can’t have a successful program.
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I’m no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work.
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I’m no genius, but I’m a damn good football coach.
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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’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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