C.L. Bryant Quotes

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Don't talk too much. Don't pop off. Don't talk after the game until you cool off.

We must be our own authentically unique truth, and question who we are, what created us, and what processes within us are alien and externally created.

I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.

I'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad.

I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens.

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.

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.

I don't have any ideas; my coaches have them. I just pass the ideas on and referee the arguments.

Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult.

The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.

Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

Get the winners into the game.

If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.

It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.

Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.

I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

Here's a twenty, bury two.

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward - get real with yourself.

I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.

Every time a player goes out there, at least 20 people have some amount of influence on him. His mother has more influence than anyone. I know because I played, and I loved my mama.

Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat.

I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.

It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.

The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west.

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

Know yourself. Be yourself. Love yourself. Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

Positive attitudes qualify you for positive experiences.

Eeew, I'd be a little uncomfortable Googling myself. People sit there - and Google themselves? That's kind of weird.

I didn't expect this award [the 2008 MVP] would come to me. I'm surprised. I've played pretty well in other seasons. Our team hasn't been as good. Things just fell into place.

The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.

Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.

One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution.

The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.

When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.

Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.

We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.

The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness.

We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.

We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

When you win, there's glory enough for everybody. When you lose, there's glory for none.