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

Lineage[ ancestors, pedigree, genealogy ]

“But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved.”

Hebrews 10:39

“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

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful.”

Paul of Tarsus

Legacy[ what you pass to the next generation ]

“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

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

Jim Eliot

“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

Training[ learning to pay the price ]

“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

“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

"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

"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

“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

Assignment

[ what are you gonna do? ]

“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

“Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win!”

Paul of Tarsus1 Corinthians 9:24 (NLT)

“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

“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