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Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
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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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'd like for people to remember me as a winner, because I ain't never been nothin but a winner.
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If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.
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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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If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.
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I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.
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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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It really doesn't cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable
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In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.
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Get the winners into the game.
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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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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 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 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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Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.
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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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Have a plan. Follow the plan, and you'll be surprised how successful you can be. Most people don't have a plan. That's why it's easy to beat most folks.
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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 have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.
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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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