Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble THIS football"
John Heisman
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"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
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"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
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"It isn't necessary to see a good tackle, you can hear it."
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
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"At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat that costs money and we don't have any."
Erk Russell / Georgia Southern
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"After you retire, there's only one big event left and I ain't ready for that."
Bobby Bowden / Florida State
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"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it."
Lou Holtz / Arkansas
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"When you win, nothing hurts."
Joe Namath / Alabama
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"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."
Lou Holtz / Arkansas
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"If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"
Bear Bryant / Alabama
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"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall."
Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
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"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you."
Woody Hayes / Ohio State
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"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
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"In Alabama , an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant."
Wally Butts / Georgia
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"You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life."
Paul Dietzel / LSU
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"It's kind of hard to rally around a math class."
Bear Bryant / Alabama
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When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world.
"No, but you can see it from here."
Lou Holtz / Arkansas
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"There's one sure way to stop us from scoring give us the ball near the goal line."
Matty Bell / SMU
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"Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died."
Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
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"I never graduated from Iowa , but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's."
Alex Karras / Iowa
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"My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor."
Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee
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"I could have been a Rhodes Scholar except for my grades."
Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
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"Always remember Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David."
Shug Jordan / Auburn
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"They cut us up like boarding house pie and that's real small pieces."
Darrell Royal / Texas
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"They whipped us like a tied up goat."
Spike Dykes / Texas Tech
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"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
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"Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel."
Bobby Bowden / Florida State
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"Football is NOT a contact sport - it is a collision sport.
Dancing IS a contact sport."
Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
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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
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"If lessons are learned in defeat our team is getting a great education."
Murray Warmath / Minnesota
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"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
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"Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon."
Spike Dykes / Texas Tech
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"We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches."
Darrell Royal / Texas
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"We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking."
John McKay / USC
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"Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad ."
Darrell Royal / University of Texas
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"I've found that prayers work best when you have big players."
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
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“I want commitment. Commitment! Not a Kamikaze Pilot with 47 missions.”
Lou Holtz / Notre Dame
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