Great quotes from great coaches ... Thx Ramey H!

 

Do they make these type of coaches anymore?

"Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble the football."

John Heisman

 

"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

 

 

"It isn't necessary to see a good tackle, you can hear it!"

 

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

 

 

"At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat.  That costs money, and we don't have any."

Erk Russell / Georgia Southern

 

"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 - Norte Dame

 

 

"When you win, nothing hurts."

Joe Namath / Alabama

 

 

"Motivation is simple.  You eliminate those who are not motivated."

Lou Holtz / Arkansas - Norte Dame

 

 

"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

 

 

"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 is to 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

 

 

"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.  "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

 

 

USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his post-game message to his team was, "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

 

 

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

John McKay / USC

 

 

I've found that prayers work best when you have big players." Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

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