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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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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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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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I ain't never been nothin but a winner.
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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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No coach has ever won a game by what he knows it's what his players know that counts.
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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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You try to make your team do something they're not capable of and you get murdered.
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If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.
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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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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.
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Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It's like being inside a drum.
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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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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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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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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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Have a plan. Follow the plan, and you'll be surprised how successful you can be. Most people don't have a plan. That's why it's easy to beat most folks.
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If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.
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You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.
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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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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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