American Football-Not As Manly As Hurling, But Still Colorful

"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
When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world.
"No, but you can see it from here."

Lou Holtz / Arkansas...
"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 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
“Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football”
John Heisman