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There is no substitute for guts.

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 a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect.
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Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
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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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You try to make your team do something they're not capable of and you get murdered.
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Get the winners into the game.
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If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.
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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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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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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 ain't won but one. My team won the rest in spite of me.
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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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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 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'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 or too soon.
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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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If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.
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There ought to be a special place in heaven for coaches' wives.
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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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