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
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
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
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
Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
There's nothing that
cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you."
Woody Hayes / Ohio State
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
Bob Devaney / Nebraska
"In Alabama, an
atheist is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant."
Wally Butts / Georgia
Wally Butts / Georgia
"I never graduated
from Iowa. But I was only there for two terms - Truman's and
Eisenhower's."
Alex Karras / Iowa
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
Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee
"I could have been a
Rhodes Scholar except for my grades."
Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
"Always remember
Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David."
Shug Jordan / Auburn
Shug Jordan / Auburn
"They cut us up like
boarding house pie, and that's real small pieces."
Darrell Royal / Texas
Darrell Royal / Texas
"They whipped us like
a tied up goat."
Spike Dykes / Texas Tech
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
Bobby Bowden / Florida State
"Football is NOT a
contact sport, it is a collision sport. Dancing IS a contact sport."
Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
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
John McKay / USC
"If lessons are
learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education."
Murray Warmath / Minnesota
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
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
"Oh, we played about
like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon."
Spike Dykes / Texas Tech
Spike Dykes / Texas Tech
"We didn't tackle
well today, but we made up for it by not blocking."
John McKay / USC
John McKay / USC
I've found that
prayers work best when you have big players."
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame |
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