Bear Bryant Quotes - Page 4

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

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

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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.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Encouraging, Football

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• I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Running

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• Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Football, Winning

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• They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Losing, Teach

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• I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running.

  Bear Bryant

  Running, School, Texas

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• We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

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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.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Mistake

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• A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Sports, Team

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• The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.

  Bear Bryant

  Fun, Winning, Years

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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.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Winning, Coaching

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• If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

  Bear Bryant

  Encouraging, Going Out, Ems

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• It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Math, College

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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.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Wrestling

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• I ain't never been nothin but a winner.

  Bear Bryant

  Alabama Football, Winner

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• You try to make your team do something they're not capable of and you get murdered.

  Bear Bryant

  Team, Trying, Capable

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.218, Triumph Books

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• Three rules for coaching: 1.) Surround yourself with people who can't live without football. 2.) Recognize winners. They come in all forms. 3.) Have a plan for everything.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Nfl, People

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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.

  Bear Bryant

  Mistake, Winning, Made

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• When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Sports, Play

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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.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Fun, Men

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• There ought to be a special place in heaven for coaches' wives.

  Bear Bryant

  Wife, Heaven, Special

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• The idea of molding men means a lot to me.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.131, Triumph Books

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• Football changes and so do people.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, People

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• I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.

  Bear Bryant

  Home, Golf, Worry

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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.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.1907, Triumph Books

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