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I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.

Bear Bryant

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Bear Bryant
Age: 69 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 11
Died: 1983
Died: January 26
American Football Coach
American Football Player
Football Player
Military Officer
Fordyce
Arkansas
Paul Bryant
Paul Bear Bryant
Paul William Bryant
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Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
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I ain't won but one. My team won the rest in spite of me.
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Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.
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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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Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.
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When you win, there's glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there's glory for none.
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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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When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.
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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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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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They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.
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If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.
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Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It's like being inside a drum.
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My approach to the game has been the same at all the places I've been. Vanilla. The sure way. That means, first of all, to win physically. If you got eleven on a field, and they beat the other eleven physically, they'll win. They will start forcing mistakes. They'll win in the fourth quarter.
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Being inside Tiger Stadium is like being on the inside of a drum.
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If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.
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Lee Roy was the best college linebacker - bar none. He would have made every tackle on every play if they had stayed in bounds.
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When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don't repeat it.
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