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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.
Bear Bryant
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Bear Bryant
Age: 69 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 11
Died: 1983
Died: January 26
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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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Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.
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But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.
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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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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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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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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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If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.
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Don't talk too much. Don't pop off. Don't talk after the game until you cool off.
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Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.
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I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.
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I ain't never been nothin but a winner.
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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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You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.
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I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
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