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I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running.

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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 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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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'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.
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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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I don't have any ideas my coaches have them. I just pass the ideas on and referee the arguments.
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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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There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.
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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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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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If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.
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You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.
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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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There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.
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I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.
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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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When I was a young coach I used to say, Treat everybody alike. That's bull. Treat everybody fairly.
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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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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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Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
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