Football Quotes Worth Keeping!
“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
"There is no way you can be Harvard Monday through Friday and be Alabama on Saturday."
Art Guepe / 39-54-7 at Vanderbilt from 1953-1962
"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 one yet."
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
"When you win, nothing hurts."
Joe Namath / Alabama
"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."
Lou Holtz / Arkansas
"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
“Vanderbilt took about 10 years off his life. It absolutely sucked the life right out of him."
Jack Green’s widow commenting about what being football coach at Vanderbilt will do to someone.
Green (7-29-4) died at age 57, 15 years after he left Vanderbilt. His successor, Bill Pace (22-38-3), died at age 58, 18 years after he left Vanderbilt.
Green was a two-time All-American guard at Army, was team captain and played on the 1944 and 1945 teams that won consecutive national championships.
"You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life."
Paul Dietzel / LSU
"It's kind of hard to rally around a math class."
Bear Bryant / Alabama
When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world. "No, but you can see it from here."
Lou Holtz / Arkansas
"There's one sure way to stop us from scoring . . . give us the ball near the goal line."
Matty Bell / SMU
"Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died."
Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
"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
"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 and he said: "Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good."
Walt Garrison / Oklahoma State / Dallas Cowboys
"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 postgame message to his team: "All those who need showers, take one."
John McKay / USC
"If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education."
MurrayWarmath / 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."
Woody Hayes /Ohio State
"I've found that prayers work best when you have big players."
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
