Quotes from past gridiron legends have added to football's lore and should be passed on to today's youth to increase their wisdom...

> #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.
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> #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
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> #4. 'When you win, nothing hurts.' - Joe Namath / Alabama
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> #5. 'Motivation is simple.. You eliminate those who are not motivated.' - Lou Holtz / Arkansas
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> #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
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> #8. ' There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.' - Woody Hayes / Ohio State
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> #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
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> #10. 'In Alabama , an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.' - Wally Butts / Georgia
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> #11. 'You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.' - Paul Dietzel / LSU
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> #12. 'It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.' - Bear Bryant /
> Alabama
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> #13. When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world. 'No, but you can see it from here.' - Lou Holtz / Arkansas ...
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> #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
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> #15. ' There's one sure way to stop us from scoring-give us the ball near the goal line.' - Matty Bell / SMU
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> #16. 'Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.' - Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
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> #17. 'I never graduated from Iowa , but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.' - Alex Karras / Iowa
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> #18. '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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> #19. 'I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.' - Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
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> #20. 'Always remember... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.'
> - Shug Jordan / Auburn
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> #21. ' They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.' - Darrell Royal / Texas
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> #22. 'Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.'
> - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
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> #23. ' They whipped us like a tied up goat.' - Spike Dykes / Texas
> Tech
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> #24. '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
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> #25. 'Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.' - Bobby Bowden / Florida State
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> #26. 'Football is not a contact sport - it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.' - Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
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> #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
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> #28. 'If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.' - Murray Warmath / Minnesota
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> #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
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> #30. 'Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.' - Spike Dykes / Texas T ech
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> #31. 'It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.' -
> Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
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> #32. 'We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.' -Darrell
> Royal / Texas
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> #33. 'We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking.' - Wilson Matthews / Little Rock Central High School
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> #34. ' Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.' - Darrell Royal / University of Texas
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> #35. 'I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.' -
> Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
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> #36. 'Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.' - John Heisman
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> #37. "you aint seen no fooball game 'til you been toTiger Stadum on a Satidy nite" - Boudreaux - French Settlement