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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.

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Bear Bryant
Age: 69 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 11
Died: 1983
Died: January 26
American Football Coach
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Arkansas
Paul Bryant
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Paul William Bryant
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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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I'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad.
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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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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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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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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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Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat.
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There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.
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There is no sin in not liking to play it's a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn't want to.
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I've made so many mistakes that if I don't make the same mistakes over, we're going to come pretty close to winning.
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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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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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There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.
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Being inside Tiger Stadium is like being on the inside of a drum.
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Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.
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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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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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When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.
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I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.
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