Say what you want about football coaches, they know how to motivate. Here are 37 of the best football quotes I have seen.
(thanks to Mike!)
BTW, Lloyd Carr’s “who were THOSE guys?” did not make the list.
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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.” [tag]Bobby Bowden / Florida State[/tag]
3. “The man who complains about the way the ball bounce s is likely to be the one who dropped it.” [tag]Lou Holtz / Arkansas[/tag]
4. “When you win, nothing hurts.” [tag]Joe Namath / Alabama[/tag]
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!” [tag]Bear Bryant / Alabama[/tag]
7. “A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.” [tag]Frank Leahy / Notre Dame[/tag]
8. “There’s nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.” [tag]Woody Hayes / Ohio State[/tag]
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.” [tag]Bob Devaney / Nebraska[/tag]
10. “In Alabama, an atheist is someone who doesn’t believe in Bear Bryant.” [tag]Wally Butts / Georgia[/tag]
11. “You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.” [tag]Paul Dietzel / LSU[/tag]
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.” [tag]Matty Bell / SMU[/tag]
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.” [tag]Alex Karras / Iowa[/tag]
18. “My advice to defensive players:Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.” [tag]Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee[/tag]
19. “I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.” [tag]Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State[/tag]
20. “Always remember….. Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.” [tag]Shug Jordan/ Auburn[/tag]
21. “They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that’s real small pieces.” [tag]Darrell Royal / Texas[/tag]
22. “Show me a good and gracious loser, and I’ll show you a failure.” [tag]Knute Rockne / Notre Dame[/tag]
23. “They whipped us like a tied-up goat.” [tag]Spike Dykes / Texas Tech[/tag]
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.” [tag]Walt Garrison / Oklahoma State[/tag]
25. “Son, you’ve got a good engine, but your hands aren’t on the steering wheel.” Bobby Bowden / Florid a 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.” [tag]John McKay / USC[/tag]
28. “If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.” [tag]Murray Warmath / Minnesota[/tag]
29. “The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.” [tag]Knute Rockne / Notre Dame[/tag]
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 and scratch where it itches.” Darrell Royal / Texas
33. “We didn’t tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking.” John McKay / USC
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” [tag]John Heisman[/tag]
37. “At Georgia Southern, we don’t cheat. That costs money and we don’t have any.” [tag]Erk Russell / Georgia Southern[/tag].

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