Bear Bryant Quotes About Winning

Quotes about: Winning

• 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
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  Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

• 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

• 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

• Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

• 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

• Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.

  Bear Bryant

  Winning, Defense, Tickets

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

  Bear Bryant

  Team, Winning, Player

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

  Bear Bryant

  Fun, Winning, Years

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

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Sports, Team

• I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Kids, Winning

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

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Sports, Believe

• Don't talk too much or too soon.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Winning, Too Much

• 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.

  Bear Bryant

  Hurt, Winning, Worry

• Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

  Bear Bryant

  Softball, Sports, Football

• 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

• 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.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Winning, Dedication

• 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.

  Bear Bryant

  Encouraging, Sports, Winning

• 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

• 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 honestly believe that if you are willing to out-condition the opponent, have confidence in your ability, be more aggressive than your opponent and have a genuine desire for team victory, you will become the national champions. If you have all the above, you will acquire confidence and poise, and you will have those intangibles that win the close ones.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Encouraging, Team

• 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.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Encouraging, Attitude

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

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Attitude

• 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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