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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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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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If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.
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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 ain't won but one. My team won the rest in spite of me.
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I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.
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I don't have any ideas my coaches have them. I just pass the ideas on and referee the arguments.
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In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.
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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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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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People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.
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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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If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.
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If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.
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There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.
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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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Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
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Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has 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 a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect.
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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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Being inside Tiger Stadium is like being on the inside of a drum.
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