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There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.

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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Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.
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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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I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.
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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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I ain't won but one. My team won the rest in spite of me.
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Be aware of yes men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget - people win.
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Being inside Tiger Stadium is like being on the inside of a drum.
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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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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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When I was a young coach I used to say, Treat everybody alike. That's bull. Treat everybody fairly.
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If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to 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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Don't talk too much. Don't pop off. Don't talk after the game until you cool off.
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I've made so many mistakes that if I don't make the same mistakes over, we're going to come pretty close to winning.
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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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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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Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.
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Here's a twenty, bury two.
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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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