If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, “Roll, Tide, Roll!”
BEAR BRYANTI’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.
More Bear Bryant Quotes
-
-
You try to make your team do something they’re not capable of and you get murdered.
BEAR BRYANT -
There’s no use fussing on a boy who doesn’t have any ability.
BEAR BRYANT -
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
BEAR BRYANT -
No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it’s what his players know that counts.
BEAR BRYANT -
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.
BEAR BRYANT -
Don’t give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
BEAR BRYANT -
The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.
BEAR BRYANT -
Don’t talk too much or too soon.
BEAR BRYANT -
Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin’ and preachin’ were a lot alike.
BEAR BRYANT -
All I know is, I don’t want to stop coaching, and I don’t want to stop winning, so we’re gonna break the record unless I die.
BEAR BRYANT -
The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
BEAR BRYANT -
I’m no genius, but I’m a damn good football coach.
BEAR BRYANT -
I’d like for people to remember me as a winner, because I ain’t never been nothin but a winner.
BEAR BRYANT -
Don’t worry about making friends; don’t worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can’t hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can’t stand you.
BEAR BRYANT -
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.
BEAR BRYANT -
A few minutes ago, I had a hard time getting through the lobby because of all the people. After today, that won’t be happening.
BEAR BRYANT -
I told them my system was based on the “ant plan,” that I’d gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal.
BEAR BRYANT -
If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.
BEAR BRYANT -
There is no substitute for guts.
BEAR BRYANT -
If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it’s my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.
BEAR BRYANT -
I can reach a kid who doesn’t have any ability as long as he doesn’t know it.
BEAR BRYANT -
When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover – you can’t do both.
BEAR BRYANT -
People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don’t share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.
BEAR BRYANT -
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.
BEAR BRYANT -
I’ll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we’ll be champions.
BEAR BRYANT -
I’ve made so many mistakes that if I don’t make the same mistakes over, we’re going to come pretty close to winning.
BEAR BRYANT