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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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Offense
Sells
Defense
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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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There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.
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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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In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.
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Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
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They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.
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I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.
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Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It's like being inside 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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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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Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.
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If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.
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There's no substitute for guts.
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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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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 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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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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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'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
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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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