C.L. Bryant Quotes

Don't worry about making friends; don't worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can't hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can't stand you.

Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

In life, you'll have your back up against the wall many times. You might as well get used to it.

Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues That live among the clouds, and flush the air, Lingering, and deepening at the hour of dews.

Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right

If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.

I don't hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them.

At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships.

I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.

One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that.

Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.

If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.

Everybody has a different journey.

Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.

To understand the journey you have to do the walking.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh; The rocks moan wildly as it passes by; Hyssop and wormwood border all the strand, And not a flower adorns the dreary land.

If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

I've made so many mistakes that if I don't make the same mistakes over, we're going to come pretty close to winning.

The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

I feel like I was drafted to play football, not carry another player's pads.

You want a CEO that understands they need to build a team around them that's sharper and smarter than they are.

Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close.

Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of.

I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running.

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

Wake-up! Think for yourself, be yourself and return to what is real.

We must reprogram ourselves to understand that cooperation is a higher principle than competition.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you.

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

Giving is the master key to success, in all applications of human life.

Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love.

As our heart soars, we fly with it! Let love take you places!

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.