QUOTES
- John McKay, USC
“I’ve found that prayers work best when you have big players.”
- Knute Rockne, Notre Dame“Football is not a contact sport-it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.” - Duffy Daugherty, Michigan State“Lads, you’re not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.” - Frank Leahy, Notre Dame
“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.” – Lou Holtz, Arkansas
“Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas.” - Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to the 1969 game.
“Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.”
- Lou Holtz, Arkansas
“I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.” - Duffy Daugherty, Michigan State
“At Georgia Southern, we don’t cheat. That costs money and we don’t have any” – Erk Russell, Georgia Southern
“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
“After you retire, there’s only one big event left….and I ain’t ready for that.” - Bobby Bowden, Florida State
“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
“In Alabama, an atheist is someone who doesn’t believe in Bear Bryant.”
- Wally, Georgia
“No, but you can see it from here.” - Lou Holtz, Arkansas…When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world.
“There’s one sure way to stop us from scoring-give us the ball near the goal line.” - Matty Bell, SMU
“My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.” - Bowden Wyatt, Tennessee
“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
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
“Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.” - Darrell Royal, University of Texas
“Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football” - John Heisman
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.
-Don Coryell, ex-San Diego Chargers Coach
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
-Coach Darrel Royal
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden
It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired you quit when the gorilla is tired.
-Robert Strauss
To succeed…You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
-Tony Dorsett
When you’re are playing for the national championship, it’s not a matter of life or death. Its more important than that.
-Duffy Daugherty
If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
-Author unknown
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
-Will Rogers
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there is a man on base
Dave Barry
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalised for too many players on the field
Jim Boulton
NOT SO GREAT QUOTES
“It was all the fun the law would allow…and then some.” -Newton on an ESPN interview in 2006 reflecting on his side projects as a marijuana smuggler.
“The game was closer than the score indicated.”
-Baseball player Dizzy Dean, after a 1-0 game
“Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.”
-Pedro Guerrero, on sportswriters
“It’s a partial sellout.”
-Atlanta Braves broadcaster Skip Caray, trying not to say the game has only drawn 6,000 fans.
“I’m not allowed to comment on lousy officiating.”
-Jim Finks, New Orleans Saints G.M., when asked after a loss what he thought of the refs, 1986
“I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first.”
-New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers
“I feel like I’m the best, but you’re not going to get me to say that.”
-Jerry Rice.
“The shoulder surgery was a success. The lobotomy failed.”
-Mike Ditka on quarterback Jim McMahon’s surgery.
“I’ve won at every level, except college and pro.”
-Shaquille O’Neal, on his lack of championships.
“I can’t really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.”
-Shaquille O’Neal on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece
“Tom.”
-Tom Nissalke, New coach of the NBA’s Houston Rockets, when asked how he pronounced his name, 1966
“Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing – but none of them serious”
-Alan Minter
