FOOTBALL QUOTES

"Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble the football"    

John Heisman    

 

"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    

 

"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     

 

"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     

 

"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     

 

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   

 

"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    

 

I've found that prayers work best when you have big players."    

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame