Lessons from Football....
#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 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 / 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
#37. After losing to Missouri 35-10, in the 1968 Gator Bowl -- "They
run up and down the field on us like we was some barber college."
- Bear Bryant / Alabama
|
