265 Quotes by Bear Bryant

If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.

If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.

I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it.

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.

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.

I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal.

Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

I ain't never been nothin but a winner.

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.