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In life, you'll have your back up against the wall many times. You might as well get used to it.
Bear Bryant
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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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Military Officer
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Arkansas
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I think the most important thing of all for any team is a winning attitude. The coaches must have it. The players must have it. The student body must have it. If you have dedicated players who believe in themselves, you don't need a lot of talent.
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Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.
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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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There's no substitute for guts.
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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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Here's a twenty, bury two.
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I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running.
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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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Three rules for coaching: 1.) Surround yourself with people who can't live without football. 2.) Recognize winners. They come in all forms. 3.) Have a plan for everything.
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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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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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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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Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
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You try to make your team do something they're not capable of and you get murdered.
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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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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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If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.
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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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It really doesn't cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable
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Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
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