Football Wisdom...

[jmichna]

#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 only 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.
- 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 / University of 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

[Deerhunter]

I can't beleive this quote was not included......

"They treated us like red headed step children." ~Ray Rhodes

[longtalltechsan]

Originally Posted by jmichna

#23. 'They whipped us like a tied up goat.'
- Spike Dykes / Texas Tech



#30. 'Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.'
- Spike Dykes / Texas Tech

I love "Spikisms".

And all I have to say to the others is Amen.

NFL football is great, but I LOVE college football. There is nothing like it.

[akhimark]

Was it Jim Mora, Sr. in a rant - "PLAYOFFS"? There's more but I can't remember it exactly.

[jmtgsx]

I can't believe they left out John McKay's classic...
Post game interview after getting their asses kicked:
reporter: "Coach, What did you think of your players' execution today?"
McKay:"I think its a real good idea!"

[FunkyD]

The John McKay quote (from his first season in Tampa Bay) is about the best one there ever was, with this possible execption:

Ohio State-Michigan, 1968. The Buckeyes lead 44-14 with about 1½ minutes left. Ohio State scores a TD (makign it 50-14) and lines up for a 2-point conversion. A reporter asks Coach Woody Hayes why, in a blowout, would he go for 2 like that.

Woody briskly responds "Because we couldn't go for 3!!!!"

[Brickboy240]

Spike was a character...but with Mike Leach at the helm in Lubbock...do you REALLY miss Spike?

Spike could have NEVER beat up on the Aggies like Leach and Company did last October...worth every penny!

- brickboy240

(Texas Tech...class of 1989)

[longtalltechsan]

Originally Posted by Brickboy240

Spike was a character...but with Mike Leach at the helm in Lubbock...do you REALLY miss Spike?

Spike could have NEVER beat up on the Aggies like Leach and Company did last October...worth every penny!

- brickboy240

(Texas Tech...class of 1989)

Leach's sound bites and quotes are the best. Spike always made people from Lubbock look like a bunch of hicks. I don't miss Spike at all.

Last October? Try almost every year for the past 13 years! Let's add another ass whoopin' this fall.

(Texas Tech...class of 2000)

[Brickboy240]

What made last October's game even more sweet was the fact that I was watching it in a roomfull of die hard old Aggie family members. You know....the ones that have maroon cars and A&M logos on everything they own...totally annoying people. They were pretty quiet past halftime!

I don't care how bad Tech screws up during the football season...as long as they trounce Texas A&M. Talk about a group with huge ego issues.

- Brickboy240

[Baldy]

Originally Posted by jmichna

#2. 'After you retire, there's only one big event left... and I ain't ready for that.'
- Bobby Bowden / Florida State

I swear this man found the fountain of youth that Ponce de Leon was looking for here. He looks 20 years younger than the 78 that he is. He'll probably quit coaching 6 months following his death.