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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.

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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If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.
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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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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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Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.
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I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.
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If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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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 can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.
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The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.
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Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.
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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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It really doesn't cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable
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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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Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
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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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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 always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.
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