John Heisman
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Gentlemen, it is better
to have died a small boy........
than to fumble
THIS football"
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Darrell Royal
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"They cut us up like boarding house pie.......And that's
real small
pieces."
"We live one
day at a time and scratch where it itches."
"Three things can happen
when you throw the ball, and two of them are
bad ."
"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 / Dallas Cowboys
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Knute Rockne
Notre Dame
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"Show me a good and gracious loser.......and I'll show you
a failure."
"It isn't necessary to see a good tackle.....You can hear it!
"The only qualifications
for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a
back, you only have to be dumb."
"I've found
that prayers work best ........when you have big players."
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Bobby Bowden
Florida State
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"After you retire,
there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready
for that."
"Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering
wheel."
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After USC lost 51-0 to
Notre Dame, his post game message to his team:
"All those who need showers... take them."
"We didn't
tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking."
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Lou Holtz
Arkansas / Norte Dame
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"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be
the one who dropped it."
"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."
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Alex Karras / Iowa
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"I never graduated from Iowa , but I was only there for two terms -
Truman's and Eisenhower's."
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A few more we found!
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"At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat.......That costs
money and we
don't have
any."
- Erk Russell / Georgia Southern.
"When you win, nothing hurts." - Joe Namath / Alabama
"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
"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
"Football is NOT a contact sport - it is a collision sport. Dancing IS
a contact
sport."
- Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
"If lessons are learned in defeat.............our team is getting a
great
education."
- Murray Warmath / Minnesota
"Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon."
- Spike Dykes / Texas Tech
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