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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.
Bear Bryant
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Bear Bryant
Age: 69 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 11
Died: 1983
Died: January 26
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When I was a young coach I used to say, Treat everybody alike. That's bull. Treat everybody fairly.
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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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If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
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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.
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When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.
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First there are those who are winners, and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners, but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game.
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You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.
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Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state!
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It really doesn't cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable
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In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.
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No coach has ever won a game by what he knows it's what his players know that counts.
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Here's a twenty, bury two.
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It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.
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I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.
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There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.
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We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.
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In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.
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The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.
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