Bear Bryant Quotes

You have to have great players and great coaches working with you.

As coaches, you want to be able to put your players in a system that's conducive to their success.

It's not enough to buy good players, one has to develop a team.

A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.

The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.

As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

Who is the ally of the coach? Who's going to write, 'Man, that was a well-coached game.' Players win, coaches lose.

I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.

In this business, a lot of coaches are running around thinking they're the reason their teams are winning.

The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.

I was just taught, the team goes how the point guard goes.

Phil Jackson was a brilliant basketball coach, not just because of the offense that he employed, but it was so many other things that went into it.

It is up to the coaches to tell me how to play.

In order to improve our side, we need players who can make the difference.

I just coach my team. I just focus on coaching my team.

When I left college ball, I think I was prepared to coach a team, but I don't think I was prepared to help the team win.

It's amazing how much better coaches we become when you have really good players.

Are there things you can do with the rest of your personnel or are things you can do schematically to help a quarterback? I think so. But at the end of the day, that quarterback still has to be a driving force of your team, especially if you want to be a consistent winner over time.

I'm busy working on every aspect of my game - defense, shooting, rebounding - but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

I kept my speeches short as captain. I focused on the key points of the opposition of the day. As coach, I was never afraid to give long speeches to the players throughout our preparations. It was important they had all the information possible.