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.
BEAR BRYANTMama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin’ and preachin’ were a lot alike.
More Bear Bryant Quotes
-
-
If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.
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 -
Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.
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 -
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.
BEAR BRYANT -
It’s not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.
BEAR BRYANT -
If you don’t have discipline, you can’t have a successful program.
BEAR BRYANT -
If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, “Roll, Tide, Roll!”
BEAR BRYANT -
I ain’t never had much fun. I ain’t never been two inches away from a football. Here guys go fishing on the day of the game, hunting, golfing, and all I want to do is be alone, studying how not to lose.
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 -
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
BEAR BRYANT -
You try to make your team do something they’re not capable of and you get murdered.
BEAR BRYANT -
Don’t tolerate lazy people. They are losers.
BEAR BRYANT -
In life, you’ll have your back up against the wall many times. You might as well get used to it.
BEAR BRYANT -
Don’t give up. Reach down inside of you and you’ll find something left.
BEAR BRYANT