Bear Bryant Quotes

I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.

We're all about trying to teach the kids life through basketball.

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.

Kids in sports - it makes such an impact in life with the lessons that you learn.

It's not always about getting better on the basketball court. This game teaches you how to become a better person as well. It pushes you into the team concept.

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

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

I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.

I think sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways.

All the really good players I know, they all knew right from wrong. So many of them don't learn that at home nowadays.

I know when I have kids, when I'm older, I'm going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there's really no 'I' in team.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life.

What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics.

JROTC students make a commitment to serve their communities at an early age, and they learn the discipline and habits to be future leaders.

Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players.

Coach Boeheim, he's really not like a lot of coaches. We don't do shoot-arounds, we don't have curfews. So I think he teaches you how to be a man and how to be responsible for yourself.

My main goal when I talk to groups is to educate families on the physical and mental health benefits that playing sports provide young girls. It's not just about going out there and having fun. That's a part of playing sports, but a big chunk of it is all the other things that sports give you to help you become a much more whole, better person.

Sports not only build better athletes but also better people.

Sports is one of the keys to my life. It definitely kept me out of a lot of trouble and gave me a lot of discipline.

There's something about that 15- to 18-year-old boy, the time of their life that you can really impact them, not only on the field but off the field and still get the competitiveness that I love.