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"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
"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
"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
"No, but you can see it from
here."
Lou Holtz / Arkansas... When asked if Fayetteville was
the end of the world.
"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
"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."
FrankLeahy / 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
"Show me a good and gracious
loser, and I'll show you a failure."
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
"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
postgame 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."
Spike Dykes / Texas Tech
"It isn't necessary to see
a good tackle. You can hear it."
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
"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
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