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I'd like for people to remember me as a winner, because I ain't never been nothin but a winner.

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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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There's no substitute for guts.
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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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Lee Roy was the best college linebacker - bar none. He would have made every tackle on every play if they had stayed in bounds.
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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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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 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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There ought to be a special place in heaven for coaches' wives.
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If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.
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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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Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.
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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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Three rules for coaching: 1.) Surround yourself with people who can't live without football. 2.) Recognize winners. They come in all forms. 3.) Have a plan for everything.
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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 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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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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If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.
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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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Don't talk too much or too soon.
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It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.
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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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