C.L. Bryant Quotes

Features, the great soul's apparent seat.

Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.

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 victory of endurance born.

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

Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.

Positive attitudes qualify you for positive experiences.

Everybody shut up. Let us work.

There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.

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.

I'm no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work.

I think that game is a testament to what happens when you put no ceiling to what you're capable of doing.

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

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

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

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.

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.

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.

I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.

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

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.

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.

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

Ere, in the northern gale, The summer tresses of the trees are gone, The woods of Autumn, all around our vale, Have put their glory on.

Never try to time the bond market. Anyone who claims to know the future of interest rates is certifiable.

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

You have to rely on others to have success as a group.

Here's a twenty, bury two.

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

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

Thank god, I'm not from this world.

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

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.

Get the winners into the game.

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.

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.

Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult.

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

There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.

It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.

Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.

Showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back.

Ah! never shall the land forget.

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.

The mighty Rain Holds the vast empire of the sky alone.

In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.