Bear Bryant
Bear Bryant
Paul William "Bear" Bryantwas an American college football player and coach. He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team. During his 25-year tenure as Alabama's head coach, he amassed six national championships and thirteen conference championships. Upon his retirement in 1982, he held the record for most wins as head coach in collegiate football history with 323 wins. The Paul W. Bryant Museum, Paul W. Bryant Hall, Paul W. Bryant Drive, and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth11 September 1913
CityFordyce, AR
CountryUnited States of America
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.
If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
Our game plan is first year, a .500 season. Second year, a conference championship. Third year, undefeated. Fourth, a national championship. And by the fifth year, we'll be on probation, of course.
I feel blessed. I have put a lot of hard work into basketball. When you work hard and believe, something positive will come out in the end.
I want to go home while it's quiet around there and get my mail out the first thing. Then I'll help them in recruiting if I can.
It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.
Mama called, and when Mama calls, you just have to come running.
Bear Bryant's 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.
it's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog
Players can be divided, roughly, into four types. Those who have ability and know it, those who have it and don't know it, those who don't have it and know it, and those who don't have it but don't know it.
I feel bad about it. I've been telling them for 10 years that this had to happen, was going to happen. I think they can get jobs.
Don't give up at halftime. Concentrate on winning the second half.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games.
I think when it really hit me that I had to get out to keep the program from going down was after the Mississippi Southern game this year.