Bear Bryant Quotes About Football

Quotes about: Football

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  Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

• It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Sports, Meaningful

• 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.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Encouraging, Football

• Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

• I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Real, Player

• What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you're in the wrong place. You boys are special. I don't want my players to be like other students. I want special people. You can learn a lot on the football field that isn't taught in the home, the church, or the classroom. There are going to be days when you think you've got no more to give and then you're going to give plenty more. You are going to have pride and class. You are going to be very special. You are going to win the national championship for Alabama.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Football, Believe

• 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.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

• If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Believe, College

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

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Losing, Teach

• There's no substitute for guts.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

• Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

  Bear Bryant

  Softball, Sports, Football

• People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Football

• If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

  Bear Bryant

  Success, Leadership, Football

• 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.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Nfl, People

• I don't hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, College, Needs

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

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Math, College

• Here's a twenty, bury two.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, College, Two

• If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had a lot of them. Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. And, three, have a plan for everything. A plan for practice, a plan for the game. A plan for being ahead, and a plan for being behind 20-0 at half, with your quarterback hurt and the phones dead, with it raining cats and dogs and no rain gear because the equipment man left it at home.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

• That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Winning, Games

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

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Genius, Damn

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.1898, Triumph Books

• Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Football, Winning

• I ain't never had much fun. I ain't never been two inches away from a football. Here guys go fishing on the day of the game, hunting, golfing, and all I want to do is be alone, studying how not to lose.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Football, Fun

• Football changes and so do people.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, People

• I hope to get out before they start football next year.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Years, Next Year

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