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If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.

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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Program
Discipline

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Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
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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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When you win, there's glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there's glory for none.
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If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.
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You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.
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I've made so many mistakes that if I don't make the same mistakes over, we're going to come pretty close to winning.
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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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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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Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.
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But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.
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There ought to be a special place in heaven for coaches' wives.
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I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.
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I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
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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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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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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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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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Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It's like being inside a drum.
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If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.
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You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.
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