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Title: "How Bear Bryant inspired Nick Saban's pregame speech at Georgia" Post by: WALL-E on October 08, 2015, 08:45:04 PM How Bear Bryant inspired Nick Saban's pregame speech at Georgia
Title: Re: "How Bear Bryant inspired Nick Saban's pregame speech at Georgia" Post by: Chechem on October 08, 2015, 09:06:56 PM Quote A player from the 1975 Alabama football team recently showed Saban a letter received from Bear Bryant inviting the player to participate in the preseason camp. "What I'm about to ask you to do, ordinary people couldn't do," Saban said the letter read. "You wouldn't be successful if you were ordinary and do what we're going to do and try to win a championship. He said, but 'we have extraordinary people.' And that's kinda how our players reacted." The "ordinary people" quote wasn't uncommonly attributed to Bryant. "I don't want ordinary people," Bryant said at Texas A&M with his famous Junction Boys, according to ESPN's SportsCentury biography. "I want people who are willing to sacrifice and do without a lot of those things ordinary students get to do. That's what it takes to win." ... #+ #+ Title: Re: "How Bear Bryant inspired Nick Saban's pregame speech at Georgia" Post by: Jamos on October 08, 2015, 09:29:34 PM We have some very good athletes in football today but I wonder just how many could actually play both ways as the players did back then. I wonder how many could have played for Bear.
Title: Re: "How Bear Bryant inspired Nick Saban's pregame speech at Georgia" Post by: Chechem on October 09, 2015, 05:30:13 AM We have some very good athletes in football today but I wonder just how many could actually play both ways as the players did back then. I wonder how many could have played for Bear. ??? Title: Re: "How Bear Bryant inspired Nick Saban's pregame speech at Georgia" Post by: N.AL-Tider on October 09, 2015, 06:52:56 AM We have some very good athletes in football today but I wonder just how many could actually play both ways as the players did back then. I wonder how many could have played for Bear. ??? |