List of Bear Bryant Quotes

Everybody's Got Pretty Good Players Now, More Players Than There've Ever Been. If You Play Poorly, You're Going To Get Beat.

Every Time A Player Goes Out There, At Least 20 People Have Some Amount Of Influence On Him. His Mother Has More Influence Than Anyone. I Know Because I Played, And I Loved My Mama.

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.

The Summer Day Is Closed, The Sun Is Set: Well They Have Done Their Office, Those Bright Hours, The Latest Of Whose Train Goes Softly Out In The Red West.

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.

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 Won But One. My Team Won The Rest In Spite Of Me.

If A Man Is A Quitter, I'd Rather Find Out In Practice Than In A Game. I Ask For All A Player Has So I'll Know Later What I Can Expect.

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.

Don't Ever Give Up On Ability. Don't Give Up On A Player Who Has It.

I've Never Recommended Anybody Go Into Coaching, 'cause If They Have Enough On The Ball, If They Can Do Without Coaching, They Should Do Without It. If They Put As Much Work Into It And Spend As Much Time, The Rewards Are Going To Be Much Better In Something Else.

Lee Roy Was The Best College Linebacker - Bar None. He Would Have Made Every Tackle On Every Play If They Had Stayed In Bounds.