FOOTBALL QUOTES AND PHILOSOPHY
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Monday, August 20, 2007
FOOTBALL QUOTES
Subject: FOOTBALL PHILOSOPHY
At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have
any." Erik 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 heck 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." 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
"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 post game 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
"Gentlemen, what is this? This is a prolate spheroid, an elongated sphere in which the outer leathern casing is drawn tightly over a somewhat smaller rubber tubing. Better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football"
John Heisman / Georgia Tech speaking to his first team at Tech in 1904.