"Gentlemen, it is better to have died
a small boy........than to fumble
THIS football"
Woody Hayes / Ohio State Wally Butts / GeorgiaTexas Murray Minnesota
a small boy........than to fumble
THIS football"
John Heisman
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"Show me a good and gracious loser.......
and I'll show you a failure."
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
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"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
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"It isn't necessary to see a good tackle.....
You can hear it."
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
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"At Georgia
That costs money and we don't have any."
Erk Russell / Georgia Southern.
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"Football is only a game.
Spiritual things are eternal.
Nevertheless, Beat Texas
Seen on a church sign in Arkansas
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"After you retire, there's only one big
event left....and I ain't ready for that."
Bobby Bowden / Florida State
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"The man who complains about
the way the ball bounces is likely to
be the one who dropped it."
Lou Holtz / Arkansas
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"When you win, nothing hurts."
Joe Namath / Alabama
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"Motivation is simple. You eliminate
those who are not motivated."
Lou Holtz / Arkansas
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"If you want to walk the heavenly
streets of gold.......you gotta know
the password, "Roll, tide, roll!"
Bear Bryant / Alabama
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"A school without football is in
danger of deteriorating
into a medieval study hall."
Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
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"There's nothing that cleanses your soul
like getting the heck kicked out of you."
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"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
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"In Alabama
who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant."
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"You can learn more character
on the two-yard line than
anywhere else in life."
Paul Dietzel / LSU
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"It's kind of hard to rally around
a math class."
Bear Bryant / Alabama
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When asked if Fayetteville
end of the world. "No, but you can
see it from here."
Lou Holtz / Arkansas
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"There's one sure way to stop us
from scoring........ give us the ball
near the goal line."
Matty Bell
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"Lads, you're not to miss practice
unless your parents died or you died."
Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
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"I never graduated from Iowa
but I was only therefor two terms
- Truman's and Eisenhower's."
Alex Karras / Iowa
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"My advice to defensive players:
Take the shortest route to the ball
and arrive in a bad humor."
Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee
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"I could have been a Rhodes Scholar.......
except for my grades."
Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
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"Always remember .....Goliath was
a 40 point favorite over David."
Shug Jordan / Auburn
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"They cut us up like boarding house
pie....... And that's real small pieces."
Darrell Royal / Texas
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"They whipped us like a tied up goat."
Spike Dykes / Texas
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"I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the
me and he said: "Well, Walt, we took a
look at you and you weren't any good."
Walt Garrison / Oklahoma State
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"Son, you've got a good engine, but
your hands aren't on the steering wheel."
Bobby Bowden / Florida State
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"Football is NOT a contact sport -
it is a collision sport.
Dancing IS a contact sport."
Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
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After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame,
his post game message to his team:
"All those who need showers...
take them."
John McKay / USC
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"If lessons are learned in defeat.............
our team is getting a great education."
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"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
"We live one day at a time and scratch
where it itches."
Darrell Royal / Texas
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"We didn't tackle well today but we
made up for it by not blocking."
John McKay / USC
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"Three things can happen when you
throw the ball, and two of them are bad ."
Darrell Royal / University of Texas
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"I've found that prayers work best ........
when you have big players."
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
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