Quote

You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team.

Bear Bryant

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bear Bryant
Age: 69 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 11
Died: 1983
Died: January 26
American Football Coach
American Football Player
Football Player
Military Officer
Fordyce
Arkansas
Paul Bryant
Paul Bear Bryant
Paul William Bryant
Must
Finally
Believe
Basketball
Men
Leadership
Heartbeat
Hold
Nba
Team
Lift
Learn
Coaching
Others
Lifts
Together
Calm

More quotes by Bear Bryant

Image
It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.
Bear Bryant
Image
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.
Bear Bryant
Image
Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.
Bear Bryant
Image
There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.
Bear Bryant
Image
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
Image
Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat.
Bear Bryant
Image
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.
Bear Bryant
Image
Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.
Bear Bryant
Image
In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.
Bear Bryant
Image
There is no sin in not liking to play it's a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn't want to.
Bear Bryant
Image
I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running.
Bear Bryant
Image
Get the winners into the game.
Bear Bryant
Image
Three rules for coaching: 1.) Surround yourself with people who can't live without football. 2.) Recognize winners. They come in all forms. 3.) Have a plan for everything.
Bear Bryant
Image
I have had players who are good, and who know they are good I have had players who are bad and know they are bad I have had players who are good, but who don't know they are good I have had players who are bad, but who don't know they are bad. It is this last group that has won more games for me than the first three groups combined.
Bear Bryant
Image
I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.
Bear Bryant
Image
But there's one thing about quitters you have to guard against - they are contagious. If one boy goes, the chances are he'll take somebody with him, and you don't want that. So when they would start acting that way, I used to pack them up and get them out, or embarrass them, or do something to turn them around.
Bear Bryant
Image
Here's a twenty, bury two.
Bear Bryant
Image
When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.
Bear Bryant
Image
Lee Roy was the best college linebacker - bar none. He would have made every tackle on every play if they had stayed in bounds.
Bear Bryant
Image
Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state!
Bear Bryant