Bear Bryant
Bear Bryant
Paul William "Bear" Bryantwas an American college football player and coach. He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team. During his 25-year tenure as Alabama's head coach, he amassed six national championships and thirteen conference championships. Upon his retirement in 1982, he held the record for most wins as head coach in collegiate football history with 323 wins. The Paul W. Bryant Museum, Paul W. Bryant Hall, Paul W. Bryant Drive, and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth11 September 1913
CityFordyce, AR
CountryUnited States of America
It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back.
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.
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.
Players can be divided, roughly, into four types. Those who have ability and know it, those who have it and don't know it, those who don't have it and know it, and those who don't have it but don't know it.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games.
We believe there is nowhere else like this in Exeter and we are offering something different. We have so much here and because the different age groups are separated we can cater for their needs better.
Mama called, and when Mama calls, you just have to come running.
I feel blessed. I have put a lot of hard work into basketball. When you work hard and believe, something positive will come out in the end.
I feel bad about it. I've been telling them for 10 years that this had to happen, was going to happen. I think they can get jobs.