Famous Football Quotes

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


"Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas." Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to the 1969 game.


"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


"When you win, nothing hurts." Joe Namath / Alabama


"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated." Lou Holtz / Arkansas


"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


“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


"You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life." Paul Dietzel / LSU


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


"No, but you can see it from here." Lou Holtz / Arkansas...When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world.


"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


"There's one sure way to stop us from scoring-give us the ball near the goal line." Matty Bell / SMU


"Lads,you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died." Frank Leahy / Notre Dame


"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: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


"Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.” Knute Rockne / Notre Dame


"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 and 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


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


"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


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


"We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches." Darrell Royal / Texas


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


"Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad." Darrell Royal / University of Texas


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


“Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football” John Heisman

-as found on NCPreps and posted by FBRef.