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I ain't never been nothin but a winner.

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
Football Player
Military Officer
Fordyce
Arkansas
Paul Bryant
Paul Bear Bryant
Paul William Bryant
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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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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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If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.
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I think the most important thing of all for any team is a winning attitude. The coaches must have it. The players must have it. The student body must have it. If you have dedicated players who believe in themselves, you don't need a lot of talent.
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I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
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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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If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.
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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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Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.
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If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.
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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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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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Here's a twenty, bury two.
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You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.
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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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You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.
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Being inside Tiger Stadium is like being on the inside of a drum.
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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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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 play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.
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