Quotes from Bear Bryant

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.

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.

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.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

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.

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.

In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.

Don't talk too much or too soon.

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

There's no substitute for guts.

There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.

You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.

A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.

Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right

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

All I know is, I don't want to stop coaching, and I don't want to stop winning, so we're gonna break the record unless I die.

Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.

In life, you'll have your back up against the wall many times. You might as well get used to it.

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

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.

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.

If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.