Thoughts And Ponderisms:Football Quotes
“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
"The people who do not dance are the dead." ~Jerry Rose of Dance Caravan
Football Quotes...
- 'Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas ' Seen on a church sign in Arkansas ior to the 1969 game.
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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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'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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'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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'Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.' Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
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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 postgame 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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'It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.' Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
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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.' Wilson Matthews / Little Rock Central High School
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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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'Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.' John Heisman
