some good quotes my dad sent me

#1. 'Football is only a game.

Spiritual things are eternal.

Nevertheless, Beat Texas '

Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to the 1969 game.


#2. 'After you retire, there's only one big event left...

and I ain't ready for that.' Bobby Bowden / Florida State


#3. 'The man who complains about the way the ball

bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.'

Lou Holtz / Arkansas


#4. 'When you win, nothing hurts.'

Joe Namath / Alabama


#5. 'Motivation is simple.

You eliminate those who are not motivated.'

Lou Holtz / Arkansas


#6. 'If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold,

you gotta know the password, 'Roll, tide, roll!'

Bear Bryant / Alabama


#7. 'A school without football is in danger of

deteriorating into a medieval study hall.'

Frank Leahy / Notre Dame


#8. 'There's nothing that cleanses your soul

like getting the hell kicked out of you.'

Woody Hayes / Ohio State


#9. '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


#10. 'In Alabama , an atheist is someone

who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.'

Wally Butts / Georgia


#11. 'You can learn more character on the two-yard

line than anywhere else in life.'

Paul Dietzel / LSU


#12. 'It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.'

Bear Bryant / Alabama


#13. When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world.

'No, but you can see it from here.'

Lou Holtz / Arkansas ...


#14. '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


#15. 'There's one sure way to stop us from

scoring- give us the ball near the goal line.'

Matty Bell / SMU


#16. 'Lads, you're not to miss practice unless

your parents died or you died.'

Frank Leahy / Notre Dame


#17 'I never graduated from Iowa , but I was only

there for two terms -

Truman's and Eisenhower's.'

Alex Karras / Iowa


#18. 'My advice to defensive players:

Take the shortest route to the ball

and arrive in a bad humor.'

Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee


#19. 'I could have been a Rhodes Scholar,

except for my grades.'

Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State


#20. 'Always remember...

Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.'

Shug Jordan / Auburn


#21. 'They cut us up like boarding house pie.

And that's real small pieces.'

Darrell Royal / Texas


#22. 'Show me a good and gracious loser,

and I'll show you a failure.'

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame


#23. 'They whipped us like a tied up goat.'

Spike Dykes / Texas Tech


#24. '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


#25. 'Son, you've got a good engine, but your

hands aren't on the steering wheel.'

Bobby Bowden / Florida State


#26. 'Football is not a contact sport -

it is a collision sport.

Dancing is a contact sport.'

Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State


#27. After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame,

his postgame message to his team:

'All those who need showers, take them.'

John McKay / USC


#28. 'If lessons are learned in defeat,

our team is getting a great education.'

Murray Warmath / Minnesota


#29. '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


#30. 'Oh, we played about like three tons

of buzzard puke this afternoon.'

Spike Dykes / Texas Tech


#31. 'It isn't necessary to see a good tackle.

You can hear it.'

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame


#32. 'We live one day at a time and

scratch where it itches.'

Darrell Royal / Texas


#33. 'We didn't tackle well today but

we made up for it by not blocking.'

Wilson Matthews / Little Rock Central High School


#34. 'Three things can happen when you throw

the ball, and two of them are bad.

Darrell Royal / University of Texas


#35. 'I've found that prayers work best

when you have big players.'

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame


#36. 'Gentlemen, it is better to have died a

small boy than to fumble this football.'

John Heisman