Bear Bryant Game Quotations

Our game plan is first year, a .500 season. Second year, a conference championship. Third year, undefeated. Fourth, a national championship. And by the fifth year, we'll be on probation, of course.

I think when it really hit me that I had to get out to keep the program from going down was after the Mississippi Southern game this year.

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.

Get the winners into the game.

First there are those who are winners, and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners, but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game.

Don't talk too much. Don't pop off. Don't talk after the game until you cool off.

You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.

That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

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