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If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.

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
Athletics
Worthwhile
Discipline
Learn
Anything
Self

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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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Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
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I ain't never been nothin but a winner.
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There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.
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If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.
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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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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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If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.
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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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If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.
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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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You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.
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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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Here's a twenty, bury two.
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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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