Quotes From the Gridiron

[lynn jones]

Quotes from the gridiron

>

> "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

>

> "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

[dajarrel]

Great quotes

dj