College Football Quotes

With the college football season in full swing, posting this forward I've received recently seemed appropriate...

'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.' (Bobby 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)
'When you win, nothing hurts.'( Joe Namath/Alabama)
'Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.' (Lou Holtz/Arkansas)
'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.' (Frank Leahy/Notre Dame)
'There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.' (Woody Hayes/Ohio State)
(If memory serves he took this one literally on TV)
'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)
'You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.' (Paul Dietzel/LSU)
'It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.' (Bear Bryant/Alabama)
When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world. 'No, but you can see it from here.' (Lou Holtz /Arkansas)
'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)
'There's one sure way to stop us from scoring- give us the ball near the goal line.' (Matty Bell/SMU)
'Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.' (Frank Leahy/Notre Dame)
'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)
'Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.' (Knute Rockne/Notre Dame)
'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.' (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 postgame message to his team: '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)
'Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.' (Spike Dykes/Texas Tech)
'It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.' (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.' (Wilson Matthews/Little Rock Central High School)
'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)
'Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.' ( John Heisman)