C.L. Bryant Quotes

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

How we treat other people changes them, but even more so, how we treat other people changes us.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.

Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

All I know is, I don't want to stop coaching, and I don't want to stop winning, so we're gonna break the record unless I die.

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.

I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it.

I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without it? If you can live without it, don't get in it.

When I was a young coach I used to say, "Treat everybody alike." That's bull. Treat everybody fairly.

In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I've had is winning, and that's ridiculous.

Three rules for coaching: 1.) Surround yourself with people who can't live without football. 2.) Recognize winners. They come in all forms. 3.) Have a plan for everything.

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

The fun never goes out, but it changes with the years, with winning and losing.

I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.

Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.

Be aware of "yes" men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget - people win.

Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.

The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

Being a leader, it's the art of trying to find the balance, the right times with each individual and what they need at that moment. It requires looking outward as opposed to looking inside.

The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.

It’s not a question of if we make the playoffs; we will. And when we get there, I have no fear of anyone.

Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?

Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad's tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots ... I fell in love with you.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.

Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.

There is something beautiful in you seeking freedom.

All that tread, The globe are but a handful to the tribes, That slumber in its bosom.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love.

The solution to nearly every problem in the world comes down to greater awareness, compassion, and empathy.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.

I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.

Cultivate clarity, strength, vitality and power from natural, beautiful and organic living foods.

Within you, you will find everything you need to be complete.

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it into Chris Mihm & Kwame Brown?

If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.

I think when you're in love with someone, it reveals a lot about yourself. You either rise to your highest highs or you stoop to your lowest lows.

The idea of molding men means a lot to me.

I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.

There is no sin in not liking to play; it's a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn't want to.