Bear Bryant

1913–1983 · American college football coach, Alabama

Paul William “Bear” Bryant coached the Alabama Crimson Tide from 1958 to 1982, winning six national championships and thirteen conference titles, and retired holding the record for the most wins of any coach in college football history. He got the nickname as a teenager for agreeing to wrestle a carnival bear. He is one of the most quoted figures in American sport and one of the least well documented.

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“There's a lot of blood, sweat and guts between dreams and success”

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Not actually Bear Bryant

Often misattributed to Bear Bryant

Famous lines widely pinned on Bear Bryant that we’ve traced to someone else.

“Cunningham did more for integration in Alabama in 60 minutes than Martin Luther King Jr. did in 20 years”

actually Unattributed — no documented speaker

“It's not the will to win but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference”

actually Fielding H. Yost

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