"You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses."
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"Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good."
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"There is no substitute for guts."
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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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"Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers."
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"You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team."
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"I have had players who are good, and who know they are good; I have had players who are bad and know they are bad; I have had players who are good, but who don't know they are good; I have had players who are bad, but who don't know they are bad. It is this last group that has won more games for me than the first three groups combined."
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"Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man."
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"There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability."
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"Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers."
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"You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns."
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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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"Winning isn't imperative, but getting tougher in the fourth quarter is."
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"Lee Roy was the best college linebacker - bar none. He would have made every tackle on every play if they had stayed in bounds."
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"The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards."
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"Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike."
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"You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly."
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"It's kind of hard to rally around a math class."
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"I ain't never been nothin but a winner."
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"A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time."
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