Great Quotes about Football

"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

"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

"It's kind of hard to rally around a math class."  Bear Bryant / Alabama

"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

 

"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 / Michigan State

 

"Always remember ..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David."

 Shug Jordan / Auburn

 

"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

 

"Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon."

Spike Dykes / Texas Tech

 

"We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking."

Wilson Matthews / Little Rock Central High School