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
A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers.
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.
The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief.
Be aware of "yes" men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget - people win.
If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"
Don't talk too much or too soon.
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.
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.
There's no substitute for guts.
I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it.
No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.
I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
I ain't never been nothin but a winner.