1. Be a Man!
[ quit being a sissy and man up ]

2. Lineage
[ ancestors, pedigree, genealogy ]

3. “But we are not of
those who shrink
back and are
destroyed, but of
those who believe
and are saved.”
Hebrews 10:39

4. “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.”
Paul “Bear” Bryant

5. “I have fought the good fight, I
have finished the race, and I
have remained faithful.”
Paul of Tarsus

6. Legacy
[ what you pass to the next generation ]

7. “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 fist-fight 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.”
Paul “Bear” Bryant

8. “He is no fool
who gives what
he cannot keep
to gain what he
cannot lose.”
Jim Eliot

9. “It is not the critic who counts: not the man who
points out how the strong man stumbles or where
the doer of deeds could have done better. The
credit belongs to the man who is actually in the
arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and
blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes
up short again and again, because there is no
effort without error or shortcoming, but who
knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at
the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high
achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at
least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place
shall never be with those cold and timid souls who
knew neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt

10. Training
[ learning to pay the price ]

11. “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.”
Paul “Bear” Bryant

12. “I do not run like
a man running
aimlessly; I do
not fight like a
man beating
the air.”
Paul of Tarsus
1 Corinthians 9:26

13. quot;Leaders are made, they are
not born. They are made
by hard effort, which is
the price which all of us
must pay to achieve any
goal that is worthwhile.“
Vince Lombardi

14. quot;It's not the will to win
that matters -
everyone has that.
It's the will to
prepare to win that
matters.“
Paul “Bear” Bryant

15. “Once you agree upon
the price you and your
family must pay for
success, it enables you
to ignore the minor
hurts, the opponent's
pressure, and the
temporary failures.”
Vince Lombardi

16. Assignment
[ what are you gonna do? ]

17. “Let us not become
weary in doing good,
for at the proper
time we will reap a
harvest if we do not
give up.”
Galatians 6:9

18. “Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but
only one person gets the prize? So run to win!”
Paul of Tarsus
1 Corinthians 9:24 (NLT)

19. “I firmly believe that any
man's finest hour, the
greatest fulfillment of all
that he holds dear, is that
moment when he has
worked his heart out in a
good cause and lies
exhausted on the field of
battle - victorious.”
Vince Lombardi

20. “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with
all your might, for in the grave, where you
are going, there is neither working nor
planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.”
Solomon
Ecclesiastes 9:10