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Player Quotes by Bear Bryant
- It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff…
- 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…
- I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.
- 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,…
- No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.
- At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships.
- Every time a player goes out there, at least 20 people have some amount of influence on him. His mother has more influence than anyone.…
- Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat.
- 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.
- I think the most important thing of all for any team is a winning attitude. The coaches must have it. The players must have it.…
- 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…
- The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach…
- I'll never give up on a player regardless of his ability as long as he never gives up on himself. In time he will develop.
- If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.
- Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.
- I have always tried to teach my players to be fighters. When I say that, I don't mean put up your dukes and get in…
- I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.
- I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without…
- What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you're in the wrong…
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- I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em?… — Yogi Berra
- Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is… — Ambrose Bierce
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- The best players will play. That's the way it will always be. — Larry Bird