Great Football Coaches Quotes

Great Football Coaches Quotes

"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

"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

"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

"Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad." -- Bob Devaney / Nebraska

"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 -- --