WHAT THE BEAR WANTED TO TEACH HIS PLAYERS

"We are going to learn to play football, and we are going to get up and go to class like our mamas and papas expect us to.  And we are going to win.  Ten years from now, you are going to be married with a family, your wife might be sick, your kids might be sick, you might be sick, but you will get your butt up and go to work.  That's what I'm going to do for you.  I'm going to teach you how to do things you don't feel like doing."

Bear Bryant on January 10, 1958 at his first team meeting after being named head coach at the University of Alabama -- from "The Last Coach" by Allen Barra