A friend on here emailed this to me. I thought it was too good to keep it to myself.
FROM THE EXPERTS.
"Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy.........than to fumble THIS football"
John Heisman
"Show me a good and gracious loser.......and I'll show you a failure."
Knute Rockne /Notre Dame
"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.
"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."
Bob by 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 - Norte Dame
"When you win, nothing hurts."
Joe Namath / Alabama
"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."
Lou Holtz / Arkansas - Norte Dame
"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."
Fran k 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: 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
"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."
Bob by 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:
"If there are 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
"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
