C.L. Bryant Quotes

There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.

Hope meets you halfway on a bridge called faith.

People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings.

I don't hate homosexuals. I love homosexuals. It's the sin of homosexuality I hate.

The Lord expects you to do some things for yourself.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need.

Don't make promises you can't keep.

A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.

Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.

Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.

Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.

As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.

There's no substitute for guts.

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

Love only serves and does not calculate.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.

Camo never goes out of style as far as I'm concerned.

Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.

When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.

If you don't believe in yourself...nobo dy else will.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

I enjoy playing at the heart of it is just a kid who really loves playing the game of basketball.

Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love.

Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future.

The trees which are pruned, watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people.

I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

There is no substitute for guts.

You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.

Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

[On homosexuality:] I'm more inclined [now] to say live and let live.

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

Records don’t mean anything in rivalry games.

Leaders must be released from the idea that they must be great prayer warriors before they can begin to call others to prayer.

You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team.

Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.

Motivating people- the ingredient that separates winners from losers.