Post by Oneback on Jan 11, 2012 20:35:52 GMT
6 National Championships at Bama:
BEAR BRYANT — SELECTING PLAYERS
1. He must be dedicated to the game of football.
2. He must have the desire to excel and to win.
3. He must be tough physically and mentally.
4. He must be willing to make personal sacrifices.
5. He must put team glory in front of personal glorification.
6. He must be a leader of men both on and off the field.
7. He should be a good student.
NOTE: Great elaboration on #3 (above): "We believe and teach our boys they must be more aggressive and "out-mean" our opponents if they expect to win with consistency. If we "out-mean" and physically whip our opponents by hard blocking and tackling, and we are consistent in doing it, we'll win a lot of football games. Football is a contact sport, and we must make the initial contact. In order to be a winner a boy must whip his man individually, and the team must beat the opponent physically".
Paul "Bear" Bryant
My approach to the game has been the same at all the places I've been. Vanilla. The sure way. That means, first of all, to win physically. If you got eleven on a field, and they beat the other eleven physically, they'll win. They will start forcing mistakes. They'll win in the fourth quarter.
Regardless of who was coaching them, they still would have been a great team. I said early in the season that they were the nicest, even sissiest, bunch I ever had. I think they read it, because later on they got unfriendly.
Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.
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.
The same thing(s) win, that always won... And we just have a different bunch of excuses if we lose.
There's no substitute for guts.
They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.
Tough times don't last, but tough people do.
When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don't repeat it.
You have to learn what makes this or that Sammy run. For one it's a pat on the back, for another it's eating him out, for still another it's a fatherly talk, or something else. You're a fool if you think as I did as a young coach, that you can treat them all alike.
You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.
I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and, all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.
I ain't never had much fun. I ain't never been two inches away from a football. Here guys go fishing on the day of the game, hunting, golfing, and all I want to do is be alone, studying how not to lose.
I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.
I think the most important thing of all for any team is a winning attitude. The coaches must have it. The players must have it. The student body must have it. If you have dedicated players who believe in themselves, you don't need a lot of talent.
If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program
If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.
Justifying the role of athletics: "It's kind of hard to rally 'round a math class."
"I make my practices real hard ........because if a player is a quitter.....I want him to quit in practice, not in a game."
Bear Bryant / Alabama
Paul "Bear" Bryant was a coaching legend. During his 25 year tenure at the University of Alabama, he was college football's winningest coach, leading his team to six national championships. As a young man he was tough-he earned his famous nickname by volunteering to wrestle a bear at age 13 and played in a game with a partially broken leg during his time as a college player. He carried this toughness over to his coaching where he demanded excellence of his men on and off the field, and looked dapper while doing it. Losing was not an option, and sweat equity made sure of it. The inspiration he doled out applies not just to football but to the grand game of life.
Read more: artofmanliness.com/2010...-bryant/#ixzz12dqWVS5n
BEAR BRYANT — SELECTING PLAYERS
1. He must be dedicated to the game of football.
2. He must have the desire to excel and to win.
3. He must be tough physically and mentally.
4. He must be willing to make personal sacrifices.
5. He must put team glory in front of personal glorification.
6. He must be a leader of men both on and off the field.
7. He should be a good student.
NOTE: Great elaboration on #3 (above): "We believe and teach our boys they must be more aggressive and "out-mean" our opponents if they expect to win with consistency. If we "out-mean" and physically whip our opponents by hard blocking and tackling, and we are consistent in doing it, we'll win a lot of football games. Football is a contact sport, and we must make the initial contact. In order to be a winner a boy must whip his man individually, and the team must beat the opponent physically".
Paul "Bear" Bryant
My approach to the game has been the same at all the places I've been. Vanilla. The sure way. That means, first of all, to win physically. If you got eleven on a field, and they beat the other eleven physically, they'll win. They will start forcing mistakes. They'll win in the fourth quarter.
Regardless of who was coaching them, they still would have been a great team. I said early in the season that they were the nicest, even sissiest, bunch I ever had. I think they read it, because later on they got unfriendly.
Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.
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.
The same thing(s) win, that always won... And we just have a different bunch of excuses if we lose.
There's no substitute for guts.
They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.
Tough times don't last, but tough people do.
When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don't repeat it.
You have to learn what makes this or that Sammy run. For one it's a pat on the back, for another it's eating him out, for still another it's a fatherly talk, or something else. You're a fool if you think as I did as a young coach, that you can treat them all alike.
You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.
I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and, all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.
I ain't never had much fun. I ain't never been two inches away from a football. Here guys go fishing on the day of the game, hunting, golfing, and all I want to do is be alone, studying how not to lose.
I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.
I think the most important thing of all for any team is a winning attitude. The coaches must have it. The players must have it. The student body must have it. If you have dedicated players who believe in themselves, you don't need a lot of talent.
If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program
If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.
Justifying the role of athletics: "It's kind of hard to rally 'round a math class."
"I make my practices real hard ........because if a player is a quitter.....I want him to quit in practice, not in a game."
Bear Bryant / Alabama
Paul "Bear" Bryant was a coaching legend. During his 25 year tenure at the University of Alabama, he was college football's winningest coach, leading his team to six national championships. As a young man he was tough-he earned his famous nickname by volunteering to wrestle a bear at age 13 and played in a game with a partially broken leg during his time as a college player. He carried this toughness over to his coaching where he demanded excellence of his men on and off the field, and looked dapper while doing it. Losing was not an option, and sweat equity made sure of it. The inspiration he doled out applies not just to football but to the grand game of life.
Read more: artofmanliness.com/2010...-bryant/#ixzz12dqWVS5n