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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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Defense
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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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You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.
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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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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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Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.
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I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.
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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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In life, you'll have your back up against the wall many times. You might as well get used to it.
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They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.
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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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I ain't won but one. My team won the rest in spite of me.
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If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.
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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 they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.
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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 take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.
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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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There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.
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There is no sin in not liking to play it's a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn't want to.
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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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