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There's no substitute for guts.

Bear Bryant

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Bear Bryant
Age: 69 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 11
Died: 1983
Died: January 26
American Football Coach
American Football Player
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Military Officer
Fordyce
Arkansas
Paul Bryant
Paul Bear Bryant
Paul William Bryant
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I ain't never had much fun. I ain't never been two inches away from a football. Here guys go fishing on the day of the game, hunting, golfing, and all I want to do is be alone, studying how not to lose.
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Get the winners into the game.
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First there are those who are winners, and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners, but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game.
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It really doesn't cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable
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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.
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When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.
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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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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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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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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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When you win, there's glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there's glory for none.
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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'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad.
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There ought to be a special place in heaven for coaches' wives.
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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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The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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I'd like for people to remember me as a winner, because I ain't never been nothin but a winner.
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Don't talk too much or too soon.
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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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