Source: Top Fifty Quotes From Bear Bryant, Drew, Roberts, Aug. 7, 2012, 2015-12-17 http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/2012/bear-bryant-50-quotes/,
“Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.”
“A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.”
Letter (3 March 1944), later published in War As I Knew It (1947) Similar expressions were also used in his famous "Speech to the Third Army" in June 1944. The phrase is similar to one attributed to Erwin Rommel, "Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, and brains saves both", and to an even older one by August Willich: "A drop of sweat on the drill ground will save many drops of blood on the battlefield" from The Army: Standing Army or National Army? (1866)
“Man, you must sweat
And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build
Your verse a ladder.”
"Poetry For Supper"
Poetry For Supper (1958)
Context: Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer
Said once about the long toil
that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it to nature and the verse sprawls,
Limp as bindweed, if it break at all
Life's iron crust
Man, you must sweat
And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build
Your verse a ladder.
“There was pride in the shirt. There was sweat in the shirt. There was blood in the shirt.”
1-Oct-2005, Radio Derby
A good washing powder was required after the game.
“Blood sweat and tears homie I'm made of it”
-Dat New New
Music
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
Source: The Second World War: Alone
Interview for French TV (1998)
“Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.”
“The poor and middle class buy luxuries with their own sweat, blood and children’s inheritance.”
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!
“I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood.”
Speech to the Third Army (1944)
Context: From time to time there will be some complaints that we are pushing our people too hard. I don't give a good Goddamn about such complaints. I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood. The harder we push, the more Germans we will kill. The more Germans we kill, the fewer of our men will be killed. Pushing means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that.
