Great football quotes!

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Got these by email - I had heard a lot of them but not all. Enjoy!

 

 

1. 'Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal.

Nevertheless, Beat Texas.' Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to

the 1969 game.

 

2. 'After you retire, there's only one big event left... and I ain't

ready for that.' Bobby Bowden / Florida State

 

3. 'The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be

the one who dropped it.' Lou Holtz / Arkansas

 

4. 'When you win, nothing hurts.' Joe Namath / Alabama

 

5. 'Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.'

Lou Holtz / Arkansas

 

6. 'If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the

password, 'Roll, tide, roll!' Bear Bryant / Alabama

 

7. 'A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a

medieval study hall.' Frank Leahy / Notre Dame

 

8. 'There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the heck kicked

out of you.' Woody Hayes / Ohio State

 

9. 'I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I

just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.' Bob Devaney /

Nebraska

 

10. 'In Alabama, an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in Bear

Bryant.' Wally Butts / Georgia

 

11. 'You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else

in life.' Paul Dietzel / LSU

 

12. 'It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.' Bear Bryant /

Alabama

 

13. When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world: 'No, but you can

see it from here.' Lou Holtz / Arkansas

 

14. 'I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I

want him to quit in practice, not in a game.' Bear Bryant / Alabama

 

15. 'There's one sure way to stop us from scoring. Give us the ball near

the goal line.' Matty Bell / SMU

 

16. 'Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you

died.' Frank Leahy / Notre Dame

 

17. 'I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms -

Truman's and Eisenhower's.' Alex Karras / Iowa

 

18. 'My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball

and arrive in a bad humor.' Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee

 

19. 'I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.' Duffy

Daugherty / Michigan State

 

20. 'Always remember... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.'

Shug Jordan / Auburn

 

21. 'They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small

pieces.' Darrell Royal / Texas

 

22. 'I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of theTexas Longhorns, why he

didn't recruit me and he said: 'Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you

weren't any good.' Walt Garrison / Oklahoma State

 

23. 'Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.'

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

 

24. 'They whipped us like a tied up goat.' Spike Dykes / Texas Tech

 

25. 'Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the

steering wheel.' Bobby Bowden / Florida State

 

26. 'Football is not a contact sport - it is a collision sport. Dancing

is a contact sport.' Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

 

27. After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his postgame message to his team:

'All those who need showers, take them.' John McKay / USC

 

28. 'If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great

education.' Murray Warmath / Minnesota

 

29. 'The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be

a back, you only have to be dumb.' Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

 

30. 'Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.'

Spike Dykes / Texas Tech

 

31. 'It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.' Knute

Rockne / Notre Dame

 

32. 'We live one day at a time.' Darrell Royal / Texas

 

33. 'We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking.'

Wilson Matthews / Little Rock Central High School

 

34. 'Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are

bad.' Darrell Royal / University of Texas

 

35. 'I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.' Knute

Rockne / Notre Dame

 

36. 'Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this

football.' John Heisman