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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.

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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
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Paul William Bryant
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Don't talk too much. Don't pop off. Don't talk after the game until you cool off.
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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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If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.
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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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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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Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.
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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'd like for people to remember me as a winner, because I ain't never been nothin but a winner.
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There ought to be a special place in heaven for coaches' wives.
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There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
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I don't have any ideas my coaches have them. I just pass the ideas on and referee the arguments.
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Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.
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If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.
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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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Don't talk too much or too soon.
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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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