Paul Bryant Quotes

• If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn’t recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.

  Paul Bryant

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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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• 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’ll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we’ll be champions.

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

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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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• 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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• Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

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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.

  Paul Bryant

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  Tags in Quit, Ready, Realized

• If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

  Paul Bryant

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Paul Bryant (33)

Birth:	11th September, 1913
Death:	26th January, 1983
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Coach, Football Player

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Births

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• 1934 - Bart Starr
• 1982 - Kate Middleton
• 1978 - A. J. McLean
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Deaths

• 1943 - Robin George Collingwood
• 1985 - Robert Mayer
• 1996 - Walter Miller
• 1986 - Michel de Certeau
• 1995 - Peter Edward Cook