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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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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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I ain't won but one. My team won the rest in spite of me.
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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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Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.
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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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If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.
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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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I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.
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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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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 ain't never been nothin but a winner.
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Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.
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There's no substitute for guts.
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Get the winners into the game.
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Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.
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Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
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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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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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When you win, there's glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there's glory for none.
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Being inside Tiger Stadium is like being on the inside of a drum.
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