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I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.

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Bear Bryant
Age: 69 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 11
Died: 1983
Died: January 26
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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.
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There ought to be a special place in heaven for coaches' wives.
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I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.
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I have had players who are good, and who know they are good I have had players who are bad and know they are bad I have had players who are good, but who don't know they are good I have had players who are bad, but who don't know they are bad. It is this last group that has won more games for me than the first three groups combined.
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I don't have any ideas my coaches have them. I just pass the ideas on and referee the arguments.
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I'd like for people to remember me as a winner, because I ain't never been nothin but a winner.
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If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.
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But there's one thing about quitters you have to guard against - they are contagious. If one boy goes, the chances are he'll take somebody with him, and you don't want that. So when they would start acting that way, I used to pack them up and get them out, or embarrass them, or do something to turn them around.
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Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.
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Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.
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People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.
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If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.
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I'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad.
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Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.
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You have to learn what makes this or that Sammy run. For one it's a pat on the back, for another it's eating him out, for still another it's a fatherly talk, or something else. You're a fool if you think as I did as a young coach, that you can treat them all alike.
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Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.
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Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.
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If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.
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I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.
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Being inside Tiger Stadium is like being on the inside of a drum.
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