Coach Bear Bryant Quotes

#1. Coach (Bear) Bryant wanted to see who was tough in the spring, who he could count on in the fall.

Gene Stallings

#2. 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

#3. Haven't you watched the feeds?" Winter asked her, more gently. "Vampires like anything and everything that keeps them from getting bored. Anything and everything."

Holly Black

#4. Men fear to lose as much as they hope to gain.

Drayton Bird

#5. 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.

Bear Bryant

#6. 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.

Bear Bryant

#7. 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.

Bear Bryant

#8. I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

Bear Bryant

#9. I luxuriate more in a whole day alone; a day of easy natural poses; slipping tranquilly off into the deep water of my own thoughts, navigating the underworld.

Virginia Woolf

#10. When I was a young coach I used to say, "Treat everybody alike." That's bull. Treat everybody fairly.

Bear Bryant

#11. But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance. If you do, the rest falls into place. You have to have good assistants, and a lot of things, but first you have to have the chairman of the board.

Bear Bryant

#12. By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

Mark Twain

#13. You have to learn what makes this or that Sammy run. For one it's a pat on the back, for another it's eating him out, for still another it's a fatherly talk, or something else. You're a fool if you think as I did as a young coach, that you can treat them all alike.

Bear Bryant

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

Bear Bryant

#15. I'm a boys' girl! I come from an army background and I haven't known what being a 'good Indian girl' means.

Anushka Sharma

#16. 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.

Bear Bryant

#17. 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