Famous Football Quotes

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Famous Football Quotes
#1. 'After you retire, there's only one big event left... and I ain't ready for that.'
Bobby Bowden / Florida State

#2. 'The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.'
Lou Holtz / Arkansas

#3. 'There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.'
Woody Hayes / Ohio State

#4. '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

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

#6. '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

#7. 'I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.'
Alex Karras / Iowa

#8. 'My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.'
Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee

#9. 'I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.'
Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

#10. 'Always remember... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.'
Shug Jordan / Auburn

#11. '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.'
Walt Kowalczyk / All American at Michigan State

#12. 'Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.'
Bobby Bowden / Florida State

#13. 'Football is not a contact sport - it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.'
Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State

#14. After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his said in his postgame message to his team: 'All those who need showers, take them.'
John McKay / USC

#15. 'If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.'
Murray Warmath / Minnesota

#16. '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

#17. 'It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.'
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

#18. 'We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking.'
Wilson Matthews / Little Rock Central High School

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

#20. 'Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.'
John Heisman / Auburn