Bear: My Hard Life & Good Times As Alabama's Head Coach with CD
"I want to be as close as I can with a boy without destroying  the coach-player relationship. I remember so well, after I played my last  game, how alone I felt, and I want my boys to always feel they can come to  me. And I'll say this, you can learn as much from them as you can teach  them." --Paul "Bear" Bryant"...I realized that the implications were greater than that. ...the things  Paul `Bear' Bryant did, and the things he said, achieved a relevance far  beyond the context he said and did them in. Beyond anything even he would  have dared imagine, actually. I believe now that the length of his shadow  might very well be endless. A coach for the ages, yes. But much more." --from the Introduction by John Underwood