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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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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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Everybody
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Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.
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There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.
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If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.
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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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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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Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
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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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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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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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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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No coach has ever won a game by what he knows it's what his players know that counts.
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I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.
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If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.
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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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The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.
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Here's a twenty, bury two.
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Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.
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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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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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