More Quotes by Bear Bryant
Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.
Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.
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.
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.
Expect the unexpected.
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.
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.
There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.
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.
