Bear Bryant Quotes
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Find your own picture, your own self in anything that goes bad. It's awfully easy to mouth off at your staff or chew out players, but if it's bad, and your the head coach, you're responsible. If we have an intercepted pass, I threw it. I'm the head coach. If we get a punt blocked, I caused it. A bad practice, a bad game, it's up to the head coach to assume his responsibility.
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It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.
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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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When I was a young coach I used to say, "Treat everybody alike." That's bull. Treat everybody fairly.
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Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.
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Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
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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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Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!
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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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Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers.
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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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I didn't care if we ever quit practicing. I loved it. The only other guy I ever knew who loved it as much was Jerry Duncan. He would beg to practice even when he was hurt. I've actually seen him cry because the trainer told him he couldn't scrimmage.
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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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If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"
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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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Here's a twenty, bury two.
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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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I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.
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A few minutes ago, I had a hard time getting through the lobby because of all the people. After today, that won't be happening.
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I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.
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If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.
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Don't worry about making friends; don't worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can't hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can't stand you.
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I ain't never been nothin but a winner.
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I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.
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In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I've had is winning, and that's ridiculous.
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I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.
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There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
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If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
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You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.
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I don't hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them.
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