Top 100 Bear Bryant Quotes

#1. Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers.

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#2. 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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#3. They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.

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#4. At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships.

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#5. If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.

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#6. Don't give up. Reach down inside of you and you'll find something left.

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#7. If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.

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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west.

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#12. The biggest mistake coaches make is taking borderline cases and trying to save them. I'm not talking about grades now, I'm talking about character. I want to know before a boy enrolls about his home life, and what his parents want him to be.

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#13. 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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#14. When you win, there's glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there's glory for none.

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#15. I'm no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work.

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#16. If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.

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#17. My approach to the game has been the same at all the places I've been. Vanilla. The sure way. That means, first of all, to win physically. If you got eleven on a field, and they beat the other eleven physically, they'll win. They will start forcing mistakes. They'll win in the fourth quarter.

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#18. I don't hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them.

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#19. 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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#20. It really doesn't cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be
unimaginable

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#21. Football changes and so do people.

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#22. I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.

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#23. I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.

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#24. If a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect.

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#25. Don't worry about making friends; don't worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can't hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can't stand you.

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#26. Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

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#27. Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.

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

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

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#31. I hope to get out before they start football next year.

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#32. 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.

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#33. I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

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

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#35. 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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#36. First there are those who are winners, and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners, but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game.

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#37. Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers.

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#38. In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.

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#39. I think the most important thing of all for any team is a winning attitude. The coaches must have it. The players must have it. The student body must have it. If you have dedicated players who believe in themselves, you don't need a lot of talent.

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#40. I don't have any ideas; my coaches have them. I just pass the ideas on and referee the arguments.

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#41. Being inside Tiger Stadium is like being on the inside of a drum.

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#42. 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.

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#43. I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.

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#44. I don't care how much talent a team has - if the boys don't think tough, practice tough, and live tough, how they play tough on Saturday.

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#45. If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.

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#46. It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back.

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

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#48. It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.

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#49. Be aware of "yes" men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget - people win.

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#50. 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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#51. Don't talk too much or too soon.

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#52. 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.

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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. 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. If you do, the rest falls into place. You have to have good assistants, and a lot of things, but first you have to have the chairman of the board.

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#57. Lee Roy was the best college linebacker - bar none. He would have made every tackle on every play if they had stayed in bounds.

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#58. I ain't never had much fun. I ain't never been two inches away from a football. Here guys go fishing on the day of the game, hunting, golfing, and all I want to do is be alone, studying how not to lose.

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#59. I ain't never been nothin but a winner.

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#60. I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.

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#61. Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.

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#62. I'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad.

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#63. You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

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#64. When I was a young coach I used to say, "Treat everybody alike." That's bull. Treat everybody fairly.

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#65. The idea of molding men means a lot to me.

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#66. Winning isn't imperative, but getting tougher in the fourth quarter is.

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

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#68. Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It's like being inside a drum.

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

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#70. Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state!

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#71. Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat.

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#72. I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

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#73. 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.

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

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#75. A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.

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

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#78. I ain't won but one. My team won the rest in spite of me.

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

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#80. You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.

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

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#82. I didn't care if we ever quit practicing. I loved it. The only other guy I ever knew who loved it as much was Jerry Duncan. He would beg to practice even when he was hurt. I've actually seen him cry because the trainer told him he couldn't scrimmage.

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#83. If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.

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#84. Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.

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#85. I've never recommended anybody go into coaching, 'cause if they have enough on the ball, if they can do without coaching, they should do without it. If they put as much work into it and
spend as much time, the rewards are going to be much better in something else.

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#86. Every time a player goes out there, at least 20 people have some amount of influence on him. His mother has more influence than anyone. I know because I played, and I loved my mama.

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#87. Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

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

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#89. If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.

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#90. 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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#91. The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.

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#92. I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens.

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#93. The Lord expects you to do some things for yourself.

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#94. 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.

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#95. There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.

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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

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#99. The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.

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#100. If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"

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