More Quotes by Bear Bryant
There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.
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.
Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
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.
Don't give up. Reach down inside of you and you'll find something left.
Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
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.
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.
It really doesn't cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be
unimaginable
