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Bear Bryant Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“If we lose, I want all of us to be unhappy, no one to have any fun, and expect only what is reserved for losers but take it with dignity while planning to come back.”
— Bear Bryant, Roy Exum: Bear Bryant’s Summertime Letter
Tagged: losers, Losing, Unhappy, dignity, Comeback
“If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.”
— Bear Bryant, Bear Bryant on Winning Football
Tagged: Football, Winning, Losing, Blame
“I am expecting you to report in top physical condition, clean-cut, smiling, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and raring to go. Also, I am expecting you to be prepared to run, hit, pitch, kick, catch, sweat, smell and enjoy it.”
— Bear Bryant
Tagged: Football, Training Camp, Run, hit, Pitch
“There are no easy ways but there are ways to enjoy the journey and we must find them.”
— Bear Bryant, Roy Exum: Bear Bryant’s Summertime Letter
Tagged: Journey, Path, enjoy, difficult
“You can’t get it back if you don’t win. It’s sixty minutes and over. The losers are the ones who say, ‘Oh I wish I could play it again.’ You can’t play it again.”
— Bear Bryant, Bear Bryant's Six Minutes Speech- All Pro Dad
Tagged: Football, winners, losers, Regret
“Nothing’s too good for winners. I want to love you, pat you, pet you, brag on you and see you hoot, run and shout and laugh, pray, hug, kiss, and win with humility.”
— Bear Bryant, Roy Exum: Bear Bryant’s Summertime Letter
Tagged: winners, losers, Humility, Celebrating
“Tell me what you expect from me.

Winning team members need to know five things:

1. Tell me what you expect from me.
2. Give me an opportunity to perform.
3. Let me know how I'm getting along.
4. Give me guidance where I need it.
5. Reward me according to my contribution.”
— Bear Bryant, Bear Bryant on Winning Football
Tagged: Football, Winning, Opportunity, Teams, Teamwork
“Play ’em jaw to jaw, and you’ll win in the fourth quarter.”
— Bear Bryant, Bear Bryant's Six Minutes Speech- All Pro Dad
Tagged: Football, Winning, strategy
“There's a lot of blood, sweat and guts between dreams and success.”
— Bear Bryant, Football's Supercoach
Tagged: Blood, Sweat, Guts, Dreams, Success
“The longest play in a game is six and a half seconds. The shortest play is less than two seconds. That’s barely a wink of the eye. You’ll average five seconds a play. Five seconds of total effort, going all out, giving a hundred percent. You oughta be able to hold your hand in a fire that long.”
— Bear Bryant, Bear Bryant's Six Minutes Speech- All Pro Dad
Tagged: Football, Plays, Giving 100 Percent, Effort
“I don't guess anybody would think much of what Joe did nowadays, including myself. But he was supposed to be a leader, so he had to live by the rules. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do, and it was to the greatest athlete I ever coached.”
— Bear Bryant, Football's Supercoach
Tagged: Football, Joe Namath, leader, Rules, athletes
“Listen, does your boy know how to work? Try to teach him to work, to sacrifice, to fight. He better learn now, because he’s going to have to do it some day. Lloyd Hale was a sophomore on that first team we took to Junction, and he asked me one time what I meant by 'fight.' Well, I don’t mean fistfight, like we used to do back in Arkansas, I told him. I mean, some morning when you’ve been out of school twenty years and you wake up and your house has burned down and your mother is in the hospital and the kids are all sick and you’re overdrawn at the bank and your wife has run off with the drummer, what are you going to do? Throw in?”
— Bear Bryant, Bear: My Hard Life & Good Times As Alabama's Head Coach with CD
Tagged: Work, Work Ethic, Arkansas, Persistence, Fight, Sacrifice
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