Bear Bryant Quotes - Page 5

I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.

One man doesn't make a team. It takes eleven.

You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

Winning isn't imperative, but getting tougher in the fourth quarter is.

I'd like for people to remember me as a winner, because I ain't never been nothin but a winner.

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.

I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it.

I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens.

I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.

Here's a twenty, bury two.

If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.

My approach to the game has been the same at all the places I've been. Vanilla. The sure way. That means, first of all, to win physically. If you got eleven on a field, and they beat the other eleven physically, they'll win. They will start forcing mistakes. They'll win in the fourth quarter.

Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.

I think the most important thing of all for any team is a winning attitude. The coaches must have it. The players must have it. The student body must have it. If you have dedicated players who believe in themselves, you don't need a lot of talent.

Get the winners into the game.

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.

I'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad.

I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.

I don't care how much talent a team has - if the boys don't think tough, practice tough, and live tough, how they play tough on Saturday.

I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.

When you win, there's glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there's glory for none.

I've never recommended anybody go into coaching, 'cause if they have enough on the ball, if they can do without coaching, they should do without it. If they put as much work into it and spend as much time, the rewards are going to be much better in something else.

If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.