Bear Bryant Quotes

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

Even the wordiest of men know there's a time to button it.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up.

I've learned when to speak out. You do have to learn when to bide your time and when to speak out, and I don't always get it right.

Don't give your advice before you are called upon.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.

It illustrates vividly my incapacity of knowing when to be silent and when to speak.

If I could go back in time and give Rookie C.J one piece of wisdom, it would be that sometimes less is more. Off the court, sometimes it's just better to shut up and be quiet.

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

Knowing when to say something and when not to say something is important.

Coaches have told me I can help the team much more if I don't talk, if I don't moan.

I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

I would rather stop too soon than too late.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.