FAMOUS COLLEGE FOOTBALL QUOTES

MrMustang1965 · Post by **MrMustang1965** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 12:04 am

Got the following email today from a fellow college football fan. Pay particular note to #15. Enjoy!

Quotes from past gridiron legends have added to football's lore and
should be passed on to today's youth to increase their wisdom.

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

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

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

#4. 'When you win, nothing hurts.' - Joe Namath / Alabama

#5. 'Motivation is simple.. You eliminate those who are not
motivated.' - Lou Holtz / Arkansas

#6. 'If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know
the password, 'Roll, tide, roll!' - Bear Bryant / Alabama

#7. 'A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a
medieval study hall.' - Frank Leahy / Notre Dame

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

#9. '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

#10. 'In Alabama , an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in Bear
Bryant.' - Wally Butts / Georgia

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

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

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

#14. '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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#21. 'They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small
pieces.' - Darrell Royal / Texas

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

#23. 'They whipped us like a tied up goat.' - Spike Dykes / Texas Tech

#24. '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

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

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

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

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

#29. '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

#30. 'Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this
afternoon.' - Spike Dykes / Texas Tech

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

#32. 'We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.' -
Darrell
Royal / Texas

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

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

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

#36. 'Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble
this football.' - John Heisman

HB Pony Dad · Post by **HB Pony Dad** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 12:18 am

Reporter-"How about the execution of your offense today coach?"

USC Coach John McKay -"I am all for it."

Statler · Post by **Statler** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 12:27 am

"Winning cures cancer."

-- The great Ron Meyer

KnuckleStang · Post by **KnuckleStang** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:10 am

"I'm a man, I'm 40"

Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex · Post by **Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:19 am

One would think that #15 on that list would have been spoken by PB, especially after that Rice game in 2006.

RGV Pony · Post by **RGV Pony** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:42 am

PAMR is absolutely right. How prophetic was Matty Bell!

redpony · Post by **redpony** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:48 am

I believe that #34 was originally quoted by Woody Hayes.

GO PONIES!!!

Waldorf · Post by **Waldorf** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:09 am

The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public. ~Phyllis Diller

PonySnob · Post by **PonySnob** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:37 pm

"I've forgotten more football than all of you will ever know!" -Phil Bennett to members of the Mustang Club

Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex · Post by **Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:41 pm

HB Pony Dad wrote:Reporter-"How about the execution of your offense today coach?"

USC Coach John McKay -"I am all for it."

Hahaha! Yes! That's the McKay quote that I was thinking about today. I couldn't remember it but yes, that one was pure genius.

Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex · Post by **Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:43 pm

For all you Deadskins fans...

"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." -Joe Theismann

mrydel · Post by **mrydel** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:53 pm

An all time SMU great "Down in Front"

or

"whatcha doing after the King and Queen are crowned?"

jtstang · Post by **jtstang** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:10 pm

" I have no expectations"

peruna81 · Post by **peruna81** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:36 pm

"ALL OUT..."

Rayburn · Post by **Rayburn** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:23 pm

#24. '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

I read that in Garrison's book. DKR really missed out not recruiting Li'l Puddin'

P.S.
#34 is right, Royal said that, not Oaf Hayes.