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No coach has ever won a game by what he knows it's what his players know that counts.
Bear Bryant
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Bear Bryant
Age: 69 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 11
Died: 1983
Died: January 26
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Paul William Bryant
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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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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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It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.
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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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But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.
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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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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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Get the winners into the game.
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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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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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They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.
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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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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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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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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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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 you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.
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There's no substitute for guts.
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Being inside Tiger Stadium is like being on the inside of a drum.
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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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