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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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There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.
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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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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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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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I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running.
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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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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'd like for people to remember me as a winner, because I ain't never been nothin but a winner.
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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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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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I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
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Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.
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Here's a twenty, bury two.
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It really doesn't cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable
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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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I don't have any ideas my coaches have them. I just pass the ideas on and referee the arguments.
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