Bryant's Quotes

#1. The three biggest funerals in Alabama history define the state's contending loyalties, I was told: George Wallace's, Martin Luther King's, and Bear Bryant's.

Paul Theroux

#2. He's very knowledgeable. That's the one advantage that I see in Kobe Bryant's career compared to Michael Jordan. Ten years into Kobe Bryant's career, we're seeing a very polished 27-year-old player who's probably got another seven or eight great years ahead of him.

Scottie Pippen

#3. It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.

Calvin Trillin

#4. Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.

Merlin Olsen

#5. I am thrilled to be working with Lane Bryant on this collaboration. Designing apparel women can feel confident and beautiful in has been a long-standing pillar of the Lela Rose brand, and we are looking forward to bringing our designs to Lane Bryant's inspiring base of customers.

Lela Rose

#6. Yoga is many things to many people, but in its full potential the practice of yoga can provide the means to transform suffering into happiness and Suzanne Bryant's film YOGA IS shows us this path.

Sharon Gannon

#7. At the fringe edge of advancement it's a war of anarchy and chaos.

Bryant McGill

#8. In today's world simple kindness is a revolutionary act.

Bryant McGill

#9. It is exclusively other people's responsibility to please themselves.

Bryant McGill

#10. I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Kobe Bryant

#11. Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

Bryant H. McGill

#12. Coach Bryant, before you start hugging me, you ought to know that my boys are fixing to get after y'all's ass,

Pat Dye

#13. 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.

Bear Bryant

#14. It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people.

Bryant Gumbel

#15. I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury - unless it's completely debilitating - I'm going to be the same player I've always been. I'll figure it out. I'll make some tweaks, some changes, but I'm still coming.

Kobe Bryant

#16. Free is one that breaks the chains of one's mind and surrenders to that which gives absence of fear.

Tambre Bryant

#17. Life's pressure is equal to your resistance. Your grief has endless time. Your sadness is bottomless. Your worries are relentless. Your resentment is unquenchable. Your fears are unmovable. Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.

Bryant McGill

#18. Oftentimes when I do a project I do get influenced by the wardrobe. I certainly learned a lot from Mad Men and from Janie (Bryant) in particular. She's just so fabulous.

Christina Hendricks

#19. The party's just getting started. This is where the fun starts.

Kobe Bryant

#20. Like love, people don't live inside of life, life lives inside of you. Open yourselves upto it and there's no stopping your heart.

Carroll Bryant

#21. You miss a lot of a person's life when you don't keep in touch. Maybe that's the point.

Bryant A. Loney

#22. Poetry can bridge that gap between what is solid and what is suggested; poetry can pull cogent meaning from the veiled truths outside of reason's grasp.

Bryant McGill

#23. Ego like bile over taste buds. Get it out or hold it in. It's the suspension will drive you nuts, churn your gut.

Patrick Bryant

#24. If you make it, great. If you miss it, what's there to be afraid of?

Kobe Bryant

#25. MEASURED IN THE BLOOD spilt in leadership challenges or the bile spewed daily in parliament, the developed world's most stable economy has produced the most volatile and petty politics.

Nick Bryant

#26. You live, you learn, you stop dating recklessly handsome men with silver tongues and dusty halo's.

Jess Bryant

#27. Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbour of humanity's great aspirations

Bryant McGill

#28. There's no substitute for guts.

Paul Bryant

#29. I'm more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It's just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

Kobe Bryant

#30. I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.

Kobe Bryant

#31. When the season transforms the weather, When leaves fall and nights grow long, That's the time when the spirits gather, They might scare you, but I never fear. I walk past the graveyard and sing a song, Cuz things aren't always as they appear.

Bryant Delafosse

#32. You have permission to walk away from anything that doesn't feel right. Trust your instincts and listen to your inner-voice - it's trying to protect you.

Bryant McGill

#33. Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.

Kobe Bryant

#34. 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.

Paul Bryant

#35. True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

Bryant H. McGill

#36. When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

Bryant McGill

#37. Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions

Bryant McGill

#38. You are the forward edge of life's advancement; in this moment in time you are the finest expression of life's brilliance.

Bryant McGill

#39. Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations.

Bryant McGill

#40. In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I've had is winning, and that's ridiculous.

Bear Bryant

#41. While technical knowledge is useful, it is only a small part of a true master's brilliance.

Bryant McGill

#42. When we judge and agonize over another's faults, we become attached to their imbalance and sickness.

Bryant McGill

#43. If they want to win right now, I'm all for it. That's all I said the whole time. If you want to wait five years, let me know. My legs aren't as young as they used to be.

Kobe Bryant

#44. When you win, there's glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there's glory for none.

Bear Bryant

#45. Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.

Kobe Bryant

#46. The world's only lessons are tension and fear - relax into yourself.

Bryant McGill

#47. It's not a question of if we make the playoffs; we will. And when we get there, I have no fear of anyone.

Kobe Bryant

#48. Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.

Willard Scott

#49. I don't think it's proper for a girl to have three boyfriends." Jennifer now begins to sound her age, and more like a grandmother.
Sally attempts to clear up any confusion. "They're not my boyfriends, they're just boys who are my friends."
"How could I have ever misunderstood that?

Carroll Bryant

#50. [That] speaks to one of the most important roles of a leader; to boil down an organization's many priorities into a simple plan, so that employees can remember it, internalize it, and act on it.

Adam Bryant

#51. Do not believe the road signs. There is no "one way." If it's your truth then it's the right way.

Bryant McGill

#52. I realize now that there's a strength in dunking that I can use to my advantage. When you dunk all the time it isn't as demoralizing to the opponent, but when you dunk at a key moment in the game you can use it to change the momentum.

Kobe Bryant

#53. Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."

[Indian Summer]

William Cullen Bryant

#54. Love me or hate me. It's one or the other. Always has been. Hate my game, my swagger. Hate my fadeaway, my hunger. Hate that I'm a veteran, a champion. Hate that. Hate it with all your heart. And hate that I'm loved for the exact same reasons.

Kobe Bryant

#55. That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,
Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.

William C. Bryant

#56. When we truly love ourselves and love life, we are compelled to deeply explore ourselves and life's possibilities.

Bryant McGill

#57. When you surrender and release the illusion of control, you begin to free-fall toward your destiny of a grand reunion with your original-self; a self uncorrupted by the world's false lessons of fear and control.

Bryant H. McGill

#58. I wouldn't say I'm a ball hog. I'm a shooter. I don't necessarily hog the ball, but I put them up, though. I definitely much rather shoot it than pass it. That's just how I am.

Kobe Bryant

#59. It's an imperfect world, so you fit in perfectly.

Bryant McGill

#60. Everyone in life has a purpose, even if it's to serve as a bad example

Carroll Bryant

#61. Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

Lil' Wayne

#62. That's not surprising to hear. Your daughter is definitely in love with me, Mrs. Bryant. She hasn't told me yet, but she will soon.

R.S. Grey

#63. Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,
Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place
A limit to the giant's unchained strength,
Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

William C. Bryant

#64. On Salem's Lot: " My favorite vampire story ever. I first read this 20 years ago, and I can still quote lines from it.
"You have been ill-used, Mr Bryant."
"I will see you sleep like the dead, teacher."
"The boy makes ten of you, false priest."
Fuck twilight. Seriously ...

Jay Kristoff

#65. It's a drone nation where everything and everyone is remotely controlled.

Bryant McGill

#66. When we hold-on to someone's imperfections we become emotionally pair-bonded to their maladies.

Bryant McGill

#67. There's always hope. And oceans. Hope and oceans.

Bryant A. Loney

#68. Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art!

Bryant McGill

#69. It's not how many times you fall. And it's not how many times you get back up. It's about how much money you have to pay people to admit that the whole incident didn't even occur to begin with.

Carroll Bryant

#70. She rests her hand on top of mine as I touch her everywhere. She's not guiding me, just staying with me, a deeper connection as I continue my seduction.

Kris Bryant

#71. Live in the present, or die in your past; it's your choice.

Bryant McGill

#72. I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.

Kobe Bryant

#73. Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do the hard work for you.

Bryant McGill

#74. It's wonderful for the players. It's a huge challenge and a huge responsibility for us to get our act together, get our butts in gear. Phil isn't going to bail us out because of our mental lapses.

Kobe Bryant

#75. The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.

Bryant McGill

#76. By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity.

Bryant McGill

#77. The way you engage someone's pain either reinforces their pain or helps to release it.

Bryant McGill

#78. My brain ... it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' ... I think that's almost worse than death.

Kobe Bryant

#79. Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult.

Bryant McGill

#80. He's got all the pains of being lost and all the benefits of being told where to go. He wants it the other way around.

Patrick Bryant

#81. Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

Jane Bryant Quinn

#82. Every experience is seen through your mind's eye, so when you change your mind you change your entire world.

Bryant McGill

#83. I was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that's what I do.

Kobe Bryant

#84. It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.

Jane Bryant Quinn

#85. I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.

William C. Bryant

#86. Maidens hearts are always soft:Would that men's were truer!

William C. Bryant

#87. The unseen essential awaits your enlightened heart's ascension to love.

Bryant McGill

#88. In my 20s, I could just power through stuff and be fine, but now, in your 40s? It's kind of like Kobe Bryant. He plays basketball a little bit differently than he did when he first started out.

Daniel Wu

#89. Do you want to flourish in the garden of life? Life's gardeners pluck the weeds and care only for the productive plants.

Bryant McGill

#90. If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.

Bear Bryant

#91. World Christians are heaven's expatriates, camping where the Kingdom is best served.

David Bryant

#92. Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.

William C. Bryant

#93. The motivation for me is just the game itself, just playing the game the right way and trying to win, compete every time I step out there on the floor. That's motivation enough for me to go out there and play well.

Kobe Bryant

#94. I don't want to say I'll be back at the top of my game because everybody's gonna think I'm crazy and it's the old player not letting go sort of thing, but that's what it's gonna be.

Kobe Bryant

#95. 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.

Bear Bryant

#96. Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures.

Bryant McGill

#97. I don't hate homosexuals. I love homosexuals. It's the sin of homosexuality I hate.

Anita Bryant

#98. The thing that's most enjoyable to me is not actually beating someone [in the game]. It's the process of coming up with the blueprint of beating that I enjoy. That's a huge flip, so for me I enjoy building. I enjoy coming up.

Kobe Bryant

#99. If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.

Joy Bryant

#100. The truth can set you free, but when it comes, it's more like a wrecking-ball than a holy beam of illumination.

Bryant McGill