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I ain't never had much fun. I ain't never been two inches away from a football. Here guys go fishing on the day of the game, hunting, golfing, and all I want to do is be alone, studying how not to lose.

Bear Bryant

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Bear Bryant
Age: 69 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 11
Died: 1983
Died: January 26
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First there are those who are winners, and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners, but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game.
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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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I ain't won but one. My team won the rest in spite of me.
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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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You try to make your team do something they're not capable of and you get murdered.
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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'd like for people to remember me as a winner, because I ain't never been nothin but a winner.
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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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The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.
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No coach has ever won a game by what he knows it's what his players know that counts.
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Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.
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There's no substitute for guts.
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Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
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Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.
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