“Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble the football”….
– John Heisman, first football coach at Rice
“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.”
– Erik 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 – Notre 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/Dallas Cowboys
“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 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
“He doesn’t know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades and he doesn’t know the meaning of a
lot of words.”
– Ohio State’s Urban Meyer
