Bear Bryant Quotes - Page 4

Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.

I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.

There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.

They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.

I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running.

We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.

There is no sin in not liking to play; it's a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn't want to.

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.

A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.

It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.

The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.

If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

I ain't never been nothin but a winner.

You try to make your team do something they're not capable of and you get murdered.

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.

Three rules for coaching: 1.) Surround yourself with people who can't live without football. 2.) Recognize winners. They come in all forms. 3.) Have a plan for everything.

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.

In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I've had is winning, and that's ridiculous.

There ought to be a special place in heaven for coaches' wives.

Don't talk too much. Don't pop off. Don't talk after the game until you cool off.

The idea of molding men means a lot to me.

Football changes and so do people.

I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.

I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without it? If you can live without it, don't get in it.