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Here are some interesting quotations.
"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."
-- Erik Russell, Georgia Southern
"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it."
-- Lou Holtz, Arkansas - Notre Dame
"When you win, nothing hurts."
-- Joe Namath, 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
"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
"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
After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, John McKay's post-game message to his team was, "All those who need showers, take them."
"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
"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
"I've found that prayers work best when you have big players."
-- Knute Rockne, Notre Dame
Ohio State's Urban Meyer on one of his players: "He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades and he doesn't know the meaning of a lot of words."
Received in an email dated August 10, 2016. Thanks, Jim.
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