Quotes & Sayings About Alabama Football

What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you're in the wrong place. You boys are special. I don't want my players to be like other students. I want special people. You can learn a lot on the football field that isn't taught in the home, the church, or the classroom. There are going to be days when you think you've got no more to give and then you're going to give plenty more. You are going to have pride and class. You are going to be very special. You are going to win the national championship for Alabama. — Bear Bryant

And if Bitsy was so all-fired set on everything being perfect, she wouldn't have scheduled the damn thing on a football Saturday. Nobody's going to miss the Alabama game for a wedding, for God's sake. We'll be lucky if the priest shows up." ~Aunt Muddy — Lexi George

The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it. — Bear Bryant

An Atheist in Alabama is one that doesn't believe in Bear Bryant. — Wally Butts

If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program. — Bear Bryant

Don't talk too much or too soon. — Bear Bryant

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

I went to Alabama, so I'm still very devoted to Alabama football and the SEC. — Joe Scarborough

I ain't never been nothin but a winner. — Bear Bryant

One man doesn't make a team. It takes eleven. — Bear Bryant

Whenever I see those crmison jerseys and crimson helmets, I feel humbled to have played football for Alabama. Other players in the NFL talk to me about their schools and their traditions. I just smile knowing the immense love Alabama fans have for our school and its football program. I'm proud to be a part of that Crimson Tide heritage. — Derrick Thomas

Winning isn't imperative, but getting tougher in the fourth quarter is. — Bear Bryant

This was tricky. They had, right now, at home, boxes of letters addressed to Michael from college football coaches and boosters and just people who wanted to get to know the future star. They had a personal letter from Congressman Harold Ford Jr., who seemed to want to become Michael's friend, and a stack of letters from a football coach at the University of Alabama, who seemed prepared to offer his hand in marriage. — Michael Lewis

I'm sorry, Alabama fans. I'm from New York and didn't watch football growing up. — Dominique Easley

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

College football was a religion in Alabama, and Saturdays in the fall were holy days. — Lexi George

I am in a two-stoplight town in the Alabama hill country, in the heart of the Bible Belt and Crimson Tide football mania, listening to an old-fashioned, heated argument between Cubans like the ones I've heard in Little Havana in Miami, but the moment very quickly loses its sense of strangeness and cultural dissonance. This is what America is like now
North America, I mean, the United States. The craziness of cubanos and mexicanos and guatemaltecos can find you just about anywhere — Hector Tobar

Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn. — Pat Dye

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