WORDS TO INSPIRE THE MUSTANGS AGAINST UTEP!

[MrMustang1965]

Sam Houston spoke these words to his troops before the Battle of San Jacinto. Perhaps the same words will prove inspirational for the SMU Mustangs as they take on the University of Texas - El Paso Miners this Saturday.

"We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name." - Sam Houston

Just one more note: anything with the words University of Texas in it should be reason enough to inspire the SMU Mustangs to win!

[PlanoStang]

REMEMBER THE ALAMO!!!!!!

[SCAMP6381]

PLAY UNTIL THE LAST MAN STAYS DOWN

[ALEX LIFESON]

Col. W. B. TRAVIS said...... ''VICTORY OR DEATH"

[Sam I Am]

The Miners are a 21 point favorite. They are a ranked team playing at home. Like the Spartans were told when they went into battle, "come home with your shields held high or be carried on them."

[EastStang]

"Remember when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" Bluto Blutarsky.

[Sewanee Stang]

"My advice to you is to start drinking heavily"

[SCAMP6381]

WE'LL GET IT DONE! S-M-U S-M-U S-M- U

[BrianTinBigD]

Never was a big fan of Colonel Travis. He lost. Here are some words from a much more successful leader.

Words of Wisdom from General George S. Patton Jr

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
So Let's kill us some Miners(at least on the scoreboard)

"An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of bullsh*t."

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"

"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking."
This actually applies to 2 pt conversion cards that coaches carry around and don't bother thinking.

"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

"Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."

"Pressure makes diamonds."

"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't."

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."

"Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time."

"Make your plans to fit the circumstances."

"Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men."

"Take calculated risks."

"You're never beaten until you admit it."

"It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance."

"All glory is fleeting."

"A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances."

"Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational competence."

"A good plan executed today is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite point in the future."

"There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time."

"Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!"

"It is the unconquerable nature of man and not the nature of the weapon he uses that ensures victory."

"If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do... the body is never tired if the mind is not tired."

"You must do your damdest and win."

[EastStang]

What Henry V would say to UTEP.

Defy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier,
A name that in my thoughts becomes me best,
If I begin the battery once again,
I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur
Till in her ashes she lie buried.
The gates of mercy shall be all shut up,
And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart,
In liberty of bloody hand shall range
With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass
Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants.
What is it then to me, if impious war,
Array'd in flames like to the prince of fiends,
Do, with his smirch'd complexion, all fell feats
Enlink'd to waste and desolation?
What is't to me, when you yourselves are cause,
If your pure maidens fall into the hand
Of hot and forcing violation?
What rein can hold licentious wickedness
When down the hill he holds his fierce career?
We may as bootless spend our vain command
Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil
As send precepts to the leviathan
To come ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleur,
Take pity of your town and of your people,
Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command;
Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace
O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds
Of heady murder, spoil and villany.
If not, why, in a moment look to see
The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand
Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters;
Your fathers taken by the silver beards,
And their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls,
Your naked infants spitted upon pikes,
Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused
Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry
At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen.
What say you? will you yield, and this avoid,
Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd?

[PonySnob]

I don't want any of you boys thinking, that you're gonna score. You don't score, until you score! - Coach Marshall in American Pie

[Lamont_Cranston]

"An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of bullsh*t." - General George S. Patton

This could also be from SMU Head Coach Phil Bennett with a slight edit:

"The Mustangs are a team. We live, eat, sleep and play as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of bullsh*t!"

That's why the players don't have their names on the back of their jerseys!

[jtstang]

"Vodka martini--shaken, not stirred."

[Diamond Girl]

Beat the 4377 out of UTEP!!!

[ponydawg]

NUCK IF YOU BUCK.........