Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bear Bryant

At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships.

Bear Bryant

One man doesn't make a team. It takes eleven.

Bear Bryant

I don't care how much talent a team has - if the boys don't think tough, practice tough, and live tough, how they play tough on Saturday.

Bear Bryant

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

Bear Bryant

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.

Bear Bryant

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

Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.

Bear Bryant

Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It's like being inside a drum.

Bear Bryant

I honestly believe that if you are willing to out-condition the opponent, have confidence in your ability, be more aggressive than your opponent and have a genuine desire for team victory, you will become the national champions. If you have all the above, you will acquire confidence and poise, and you will have those intangibles that win the close ones.

Bear Bryant

The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief.

Barbara de Angelis

All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.

Avi

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

Avery Dulles

If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the tradition of two millenia of Catholic thought, denying the teaching of several previous popes, and contradicting the teaching of Scripture.

Avi Arad

We love Cyclops and as you know, we love James. It's a great team and we'll continue the team, obviously.

Ashley Cole

Referees and linesmen are killing teams.

Ashley Madekwe

I've teamed up with BaubleBar to curate a collection of gorgeous jewelry pieces. I worked closely with the BaubleBar team to design a collection that encompasses my style and all of my go to pieces.

Ashley Greene

Yeah, I get to fight in 'Eclipse.' My trainer is teaching me MMA right now. So. Cool.

Bernie Siegel

What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example." She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.

Bernie Siegel

Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties. How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see, the words of love you hear, and the life you feel touching your body and soul, then you know you have discovered the great value of misfortune.

Bernie Siegel

When you accept that you are not in charge of everything, you can begin to work with the one who really is in charge. This has been my experience; when I accepted that I was not in charge and started to work with someone else's plan, the Boss showed up. Now we are a team and I have less to be concerned about. He organizes my schedule. I just follow it, and when He is taking a day off my wife steps in.

Bruce Nauman

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

Shoot, everybody's rusty, ... It's the first preseason game. You can look at the whole team and tell it's the first game. We've all got to get better.

She and Mackenzie have come through for this team right when we need them to.

She really couldn't go on teaching after that.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Most teams that you have, they have one or two go-to guys. They've got a go-to team.

Most of the teams at the top just didn't give up as much ground.

Bruce Vilanch

I mean, if they're doing a television show every night like Jon Stewart, or Ellen, or David Letterman, then they have their bunch of people who are sitting on a payroll someplace, who are coming up with material every day of the week. Those are the people who wind up doing the bulk of the work for them when they host the thing, because that's their team.

Bruce Brown

All it takes is one person who is committed, focused, and on a mission to spark an entire team into believing in themselves.

Bruce Brown

Great teams have players who understand their responsibilities.

Bruce Barton

If you are going to do anything, you must expect criticism. But it's better to be a doer than a critic. The doer moves; the critic stands still, and is passed by.

Britney Spears

A lot of my hair stylists and my beauty team that I work with are gay so I hang out with gays a lot and I just think they're adorable and hilarious.

Brian McFadden

When I was at school I got lines for dropping a big squelchy, loud fart. My teacher, who was a priest, made me write 'I must not fart in class' 100 times. I left that school shortly afterwards.

Brian Ferneyhough

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.