Quotes from Football Personnel

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Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy........than to fumble THIS football" -John Heisman

"Show me a good and gracious loser.......and I'll show you a failure." -Knute Rockne /Notre Dame

"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

"It isn't necessary to see a good tackle.....You can hear it! - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

"At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat.......That costs money and we don't have any." -Erk Russell / Georgia Southern.

"Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas ." - Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to the 1969 game.

"After you retire, there's only one big event left.... and I ain't ready for that."- Bobby Bowden / Florida State

"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it." - Lou Holtz / Arkansas - Norte Dame

"When you win, nothing hurts." - Joe Namath / Alabama

"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated." - Lou Holtz / Arkansas - Norte Dame

"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall." - Frank Leahy / Notre Dame

"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you." - Woody Hayes / Ohio State

"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

"In Alabama, an atheist is... someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant." - Wally Butts / Georgia

"I never graduated from Iowa , but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's." - Alex Karras / Iowa

"My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor." - Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee

"I could have been a Rhodes Scholar.......except for my grades." - Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

"They cut us up like boarding house pie... and that's real small pieces." - Darrell Royal / Texas

They whipped us like a tied up goat." - Spike Dykes / Texas Tech

"I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas 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

"Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel." -Bobby Bowden / Florida State

"Football is NOT a contact sport - it is a collision sport. Dancing IS a contact sport." - Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

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

"If lessons are learned in defeat... our team is getting a great education." - Murray Warmath / Minnesota

"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

"Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon." -Pike Dykes / Texas Tech

"We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches." - Darrell Royal / Texas

"We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking." - John McKay / USC

"Three things can happen when you throw the ball... and two of them are bad." - Darrell Royal / University of Texas

"I've found that prayers work best when you have big players." - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame