Bear Bryant Quotes

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Bear Bryant

Profession : Coach

Birth : September 11, 1913

I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens.

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If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.

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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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There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.

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It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.

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I hope to get out before they start football next year.

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I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.

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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 think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.

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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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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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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

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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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