WISDOM OF FOOTBALL

WISDOM OF THE GAME

~BY THE EXPERTS~
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy........than to
fumble THIS football"
John Heisman


"Show me a good and gracious loser.......and I'll show you a failure."

Knute Rockne /Notre Dame

"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


"It isn't necessary to see a good tackle.....You can hear it!
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

"At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat.......That costs money and we
don't have any."
Erk Russell / Georgia Southern.

"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 - Norte Dame


"When you win, nothing hurts."
Joe Namath / Alabama
"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."
Lou Holtz / Arkansas - Norte Dame


"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


"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

"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


"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 post game
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

"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."
John McKay / USC


"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

 

Thanks Kerry