Bear Bryant Quotes

My high school didn't really have a good training program, so I did it on my own.

I train myself. I don't have trainers who want hundreds of thousands of dollars to train me. I hire who I want to put the grease on my face, to rub my neck and rub my back, to take my mouthpiece out and rinse it off and put the mouthpiece back in. And then I go about my business. And if they want to say something, they can give me little reminders. All you need are reminders. You don't need 'big-time' trainers.

I am your original autodidact.

In college, the coaching staff does more work with you individually. But at the next level, you have to do it all by yourself.

To excel at the highest level - or any level, really - you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

My parents would say to me, 'You can teach yourself anything better than someone else can teach it to you.' That was the whole ethos of my family.

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.

If your gonna drop out of school / tough grades are not your goal / then change your name to Candy and learn to work a pole.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study, so that's been my biggest influence.

But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

Whether I went to school or not, I would always study.

I think self-education is the greatest and best thing you could ever make.

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

We cannot work for others without working for ourselves.

If somebody else is achieving more than I am, that means I can do it, too. Everybody has the ability to raise themselves up, and my life has been marked by that.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete.

If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help!

Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others.

Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.