FOOTBALL QUOTES AND PHILOSOPHY

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.