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 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.
Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.
There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.
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.
I'm no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work.
It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.
I ain't won but one. My team won the rest in spite of me.
When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.
At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships.
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.
I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.
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.
Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers.
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.