Bear Bryant Quotes

It doesn't matter if you're winning or losing. You've got to be the same guy; you've got to prepare the same.

You don't get to the top in professional sport without being hard and tough, but I do that in my way. I don't shout or scream, but I am determined and I will push harder than 99 per cent of cricketers in training.

My mentality's always the same, whether it's summer league, D-League, NBA, wherever it is.

I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

I'm someone who always comes on the court no matter what's going on in my life. It's all about basketball and my teammates and my team. I don't let any distractions in, and I bring my best every night, regardless of what's going on or what people are talking about.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

I think any football is a guy that is able to one, be able to be humble and hungry off the field, but at the same time on the football field understand what they have to get done and be a little bit ferocious.

I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's needed.

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt.

We're not necessarily going to be more athletic than the other team, but we can outwork them, and we can be tougher than they are.

Serbian people are not soft, and if the coach wants me to play, then I will.

There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.

I never came out of a game unless I was truly hurt.

Wrestling is tough, and it takes hard work - mentally and physically - to do what we do in that ring.

It doesn't matter if a footballer is earning £100,000 a week or £1,000 a week the first thing you need to do is work hard for your team.

As athletes, the biggest asset that we bring to the workplace is our work ethic, our confidence, our never-say-die attitude. We're about winning.

At the end of the day, in football, you need more than technique to win. You need other values that can push you on during difficult times.

What's important to us is developing the habit of playing harder than our opponent every night.

I've always played hard. That's how I was raised.

If I can't walk, then I can't go. That's just the way I play, no matter if you're banged up or what, you've got to be in there.

You have to play your 'A' game in every single match and that's a good thing.