Great Quotes about Football
"If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password,
"Roll, tide, roll!" Bear Bryant /
"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall." Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
"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 /
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Wally Butts / Georgia
"It's kind of hard to rally around a math class." Bear Bryant /
"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 /
"Lads,you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died."
Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
"I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades."
Duffy Daugherty /
"Always remember ..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David."
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"Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel."
Bobby Bowden /
"Football is not a contact sport - it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport."
Duffy Daugherty /
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."
"Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon."
Spike Dykes /
"We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking."
Wilson Matthews /