Bear Bryant Quotes About Leadership

Quotes about: Leadership

• 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.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Encouraging, Hate

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

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Encouraging, Believe

• 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

• There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

• What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you're in the wrong place. You boys are special. I don't want my players to be like other students. I want special people. You can learn a lot on the football field that isn't taught in the home, the church, or the classroom. There are going to be days when you think you've got no more to give and then you're going to give plenty more. You are going to have pride and class. You are going to be very special. You are going to win the national championship for Alabama.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Football, Believe

• 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.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Encouraging, Believe

• I have always tried to teach my players to be fighters. When I say that, I don't mean put up your dukes and get in a fistfight over something. I'm talking about facing adversity in your life. There is not a person alive who isn't going to have some awfully bad days in their lives. I tell my players that what I mean by fighting is when your house burns down, and your wife runs off with the drummer, and you've lost your job and all the odds are against you. What are you going to do? Most people just lay down and quit. Well, I want my people to fight back.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Running, Jobs

• 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

• The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

• 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.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Team

• 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.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, War

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

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

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

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Sports, Team

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

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Sports, 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

• People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Football

• 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

• 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.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

• 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.

  Bear Bryant

  Success, Leadership, Football

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

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Mistake

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

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Giving Up

• 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.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Mistake

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

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

• Get the winners into the game.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

• 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.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Mistake

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.238, Triumph Books

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