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I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.
Bear Bryant
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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
Fordyce
Arkansas
Paul Bryant
Paul Bear Bryant
Paul William Bryant
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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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In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.
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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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You try to make your team do something they're not capable of and you get murdered.
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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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Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.
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I ain't won but one. My team won the rest in spite of me.
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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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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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If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.
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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'd like for people to remember me as a winner, because I ain't never been nothin but a winner.
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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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Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.
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Being inside Tiger Stadium is like being on the inside of a drum.
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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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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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When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.
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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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