Great Football Quotes...

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







#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.







#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







#4.  'When you win, nothing hurts.'  Joe Namath / Alabama







#5.  'Motivation is simple.  You eliminate those who are not motivated.'  Lou Holtz / Arkansas







#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







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







#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







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







#11.  'You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.'  Paul Dietzel / LSU







#12.  'It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.'  Bear Bryant / Alabama







#13.  When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world.  'No, but you can see it from here.'  Lou Holtz / Arkansas.







#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







#15.  'There's one sure way to stop us from scoring-give us the ball near the goal line.'  Matty Bell / SMU







#16.  'Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.'  Frank Leahy / Notre Dame







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







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







#19.  'I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.' Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State







#20.  'Always remember... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.' Shug Jordan / Auburn







#21.  'They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.'  Darrell Royal / Texas







#22.  'Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.'  Knute Rockne / Notre Dame







#23.  'They whipped us like a tied up goat.' Spike Dykes / Texas Tech







#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







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







#26.  'Football is not a contact sport - it is a collision sport.  Dancing is a contact sport.'  Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State







#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







#28.  'If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.' Murray Warmath / Minnesota







#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







#30.  'Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.'  Spike Dykes / Texas Tech







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







#32.  'We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.' Darrell Royal / Texas







#33.  'We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking.'  Wilson Matthews / Little Rock Central High School







#34.  'Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad. Darrell Royal / University of Texas







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







#36.  'Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.' John Heisman

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