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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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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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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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Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state!
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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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If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.
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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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You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.
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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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I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.
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When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.
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It really doesn't cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable
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There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.
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When I was a young coach I used to say, Treat everybody alike. That's bull. Treat everybody fairly.
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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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Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.
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I ain't never been nothin but a winner.
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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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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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There is no substitute for guts.
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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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