I enjoyed these. Maybe you guys might also.
"Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble the
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
"If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the
password, "Roll, tide, roll!"
Bear Bryant / Alabama
"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 is to 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
"Always remember Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David."
Shug Jordan / Auburn
"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.
"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 was,
"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."
Spike 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
> "Football is NOT a contact sport, it is a collision sport. Dancing IS a
> contact sport."
> Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
I guess Duffy D. never saw me dance. 😀
Good quotes paden. Thanks for sharing.
"When you score a touchdown, act like you've done it before."
Bear Bryant
"Win one for the Gipper"
Ronald Reagan
Supposedly Lombardy's quote: "if you are not fired up with enthusiasm you will be fired with enthusiasm"
... And after a fire destroyed 20 Auburn library books, Spurrier said this: ''The real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.''
Spurrier can kiss my lilly white foot, hope he rots in extentia. To this day I despise Florida simply because they had the poor manners to hire that nose picking piece of garbage. I feel the same way about South Carolina, although given their situation they were pretty desperate and cannot be blamed entirely.
As a loyal Auburn fan, in spite of the disaster that has been this season, all I can say is War Eagle!!
“Dance with the one who brung you” (Darrell Royal)
I also heard Tom Landry use this a time or two when asked about why players returning from injury got to start ahead of subs who were playing well.
Lombardy (Saint Vince)
"We didn't lose, we just ran out of time."
from Knute Rockne, All American (1940) starring Pat O'Brien as Knute Rockne and Ronald Reagan as George "The Gipper" Gipp.
George Gipp tragically died of a Strepp infection.
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