Bear Bryant Quotes About Wrestling

Quotes about: Wrestling

• Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Encouraging, Believe

• It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Sports, Meaningful

• 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.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

• Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

• 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 Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

• Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Leadership, Sports

• Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Mistake

• If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.1934, Triumph Books

• If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had a lot of them. Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. And, three, have a plan for everything. A plan for practice, a plan for the game. A plan for being ahead, and a plan for being behind 20-0 at half, with your quarterback hurt and the phones dead, with it raining cats and dogs and no rain gear because the equipment man left it at home.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

• But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Dog

  "Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant".

• Find your own picture, your own self in anything that goes bad. It's awfully easy to mouth off at your staff or chew out players, but if it's bad, and your the head coach, you're responsible. If we have an intercepted pass, I threw it. I'm the head coach. If we get a punt blocked, I caused it. A bad practice, a bad game, it's up to the head coach to assume his responsibility.

  Bear Bryant

  Wrestling, Responsibility, Player

• You have to learn what makes this or that Sammy run. For one it's a pat on the back, for another it's eating him out, for still another it's a fatherly talk, or something else. You're a fool if you think as I did as a young coach, that you can treat them all alike.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Running

• 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.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Wrestling

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin