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If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.

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Bear Bryant
Age: 69 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 11
Died: 1983
Died: January 26
American Football Coach
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Military Officer
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Arkansas
Paul Bryant
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Paul William Bryant
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There is no substitute for guts.
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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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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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First there are those who are winners, and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners, but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our 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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There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.
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If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.
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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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Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.
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If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.
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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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You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.
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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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Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.
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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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Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.
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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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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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