Bear Bryant
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.Collection: Inspirational
There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.Collection: Dreams
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.Collection: Good
Winning isn't everything, but it sure beats anything that comes in second.Collection: Success
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.
Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.
Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
There's no substitute for guts.
In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.
It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.
I ain't nothing but a winner.
No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.
Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
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.
There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.
I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.
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.
If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to 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.
Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.
I hope to get out before they start football next year.
If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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.
I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.
It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.
I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
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.
If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.
Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.
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.
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.Collection: Inspirational
There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.Collection: Differences
When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don't repeat it.Collection: Inspirational
Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.Collection: Motivational
Have a plan. Follow the plan, and you'll be surprised how successful you can be. Most people don't have a plan. That's why it's easy to beat most folks.Collection: Successful
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.Collection: Leadership
The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.Collection: Motivational
It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Success
Expect the unexpected.Collection: Preparation
Don't give up. Reach down inside of you and you'll find something left.Collection: Giving Up
A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Leadership
In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.Collection: Teamwork
You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.Collection: Motivational