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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
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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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Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.
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There is no substitute for guts.
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There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.
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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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When I was a young coach I used to say, Treat everybody alike. That's bull. Treat everybody fairly.
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Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
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If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.
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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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Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.
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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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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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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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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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Here's a twenty, bury two.
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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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Have a plan. Follow the plan, and you'll be surprised how successful you can be. Most people don't have a plan. That's why it's easy to beat most folks.
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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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You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.
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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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