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Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.

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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Championship
Offense
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Defense

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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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If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.
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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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No coach has ever won a game by what he knows it's what his players know that counts.
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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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Don't talk too much or too soon.
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I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
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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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I ain't never been nothin but a winner.
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You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.
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If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.
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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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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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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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Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has 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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Be aware of yes men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget - people win.
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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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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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We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.
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