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Bret Bielema

(1970) Head Coach

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Bret Bielema is a head coach, best known for Joe Thomas : Not Your Average Joe.

Quick Facts About Bret Bielema

Born: January 13, 1970
Profession: Head Coach
Notable works: Joe Thomas : Not Your Average Joe

About Bret Bielema

Bret Arnold Bielema is an American football coach who is the head football coach at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a position he has held since the 2021 season. He served as the head coach at Wisconsin from 2006 to 2012, achieving a 68–24 record and taking them to three straight Rose Bowl Games and at Arkansas from 2013 to 2017, tallying a mark of 29–34. Bielema was an assistant coach in the National Football League (NFL) for three seasons, in 2018 and 2019 with the New England Patriots and in 2020 with the New York Giants.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Bret Bielema

As a young kid, you only know what you know.

Kid

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One thing I think you have to do here at Wisconsin is maximize your personnel. From the standpoint of getting our best…

Best players

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I think when a man shows his true emotions, it's a really good indicator off what he is.

Emotions

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I can tell you this: we at the Big Ten don't want to be like the SEC - in any way, shape…

Big

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I grew up watching my mom cook.

Cook

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I'm a momma's boy at heart.

Boy

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Consistency is a beautiful word.

Beautiful

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My players mean the world to me.

Me

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My wife loves to watch 'Criminal Minds' and 'CSI' and all those shows.

Csi

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The Big Ten is brand strong.

Big

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We at the Big Ten don't want to be like the SEC ... in any way, shape or form.

Bigs

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Anytime you're a defensive player and your eyes aren't on your key, you're going to have an issue.

Defensive

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If I got into TV, I'd want to be the best.

Best

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We do a thing here at Arkansas that we teach Football IQ and call it 'Hogonese.' They are classes year-round where we…

Better

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If you want to recruit somebody of high character and value, somebody you can trust to not only watch your house, but…

Character

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As much as I disliked it, my brothers used to whoop me every day, but I have a feeling that I'm probably…

Brotherhood

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We're not necessarily going to be more athletic than the other team, but we can outwork them, and we can be tougher…

Athletic

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Everyone should have a goal in mind. I don't care what you do for a living. But you also need to live…

Find

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It's hard to train that in practice time. You can make calls, you can make adjustments, but just that pressure, 'This is…

Adjustment

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The only way to get to be the team you want to be is to get better every day.

Better

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There was a point in time in Wisconsin football when people used to just go to watch the band.

Band

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Education is the best way to relieve someone from a bad thought process.

Bad

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I grew up on a pig farm, about 2,500 pigs - we had way more pigs than people.

Farm

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If your offensive and defensive lines are speaking and people are listening, you've got a very good chance of success.

Chance

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There's a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of great fans everywhere you go in college football.

College football

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