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When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.
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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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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People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.
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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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When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don't repeat it.
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Get the winners into the game.
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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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When you win, there's glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there's glory for none.
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There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
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You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.
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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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If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.
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Being inside Tiger Stadium is like being on the inside of a drum.
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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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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'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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Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.
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Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
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They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.
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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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Here's a twenty, bury two.
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