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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
Twenties
Football
College
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I'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad.
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Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state!
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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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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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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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When I was a young coach I used to say, Treat everybody alike. That's bull. Treat everybody fairly.
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I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.
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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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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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It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.
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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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Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.
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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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Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.
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They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.
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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 overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.
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You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.
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I have had players who are good, and who know they are good I have had players who are bad and know they are bad I have had players who are good, but who don't know they are good I have had players who are bad, but who don't know they are bad. It is this last group that has won more games for me than the first three groups combined.
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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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