Life Lessons from Football
#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. 'The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.' - Lou Holtz / Arkansas
#3. 'When you win, nothing hurts.' - Joe Namath/ Alabama/ NY Jets
#4.. 'Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.' - Lou Holtz / Arkansas
#5. 'A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.' - Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
#6.. '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
#7. 'You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.' - Paul Dietzel / LSU
#8. 'It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.' - Bear Bryant / Alabama
#9. '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
#10. 'There's one sure way to stop us from scoring---give us the ball near the goal line.' - Matty Bell / SMU
#11. 'Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.' - Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
#12. 'I never graduated from Iowa , but I was there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.' - Alex Karras / Iowa / Detroit Lions
#13. 'My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.' -Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee
#14. 'I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.' - Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
#15. 'Always remember...Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.' - Shug Jordan / Auburn
#16. 'They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.' - Darrell Royal / Texas
#17 'Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.' - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
#18.. 'They whipped us like a tied up goat.' - Spike Dykes / Texas Tech
#19. "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 /Dallas Cowboys
#20. 'Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.' - Bobby Bowden / Florida State
#21. 'Football is not a contact sport - it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.' - Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
#22. After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his postgame message to his team: 'All those who need showers, take them.' - John McKay / USC
#23. 'If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.' - Murray Warmath / Minnesota
#24. 'The only qualifications for a lineman is to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.' - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
#25. 'Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.' - Spike Dykes / Texas Tech
#26. 'It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.' - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
#27. 'We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches....' - Darrell Royal / Texas
#28. 'We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking..' - Wilson Matthews / Little Rock Central High School
#29. 'Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.' - Darrell Royal / University of Texas
#30. 'I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.' - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
#31. 'Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.' - John Heisman (re: Heisman Trophy)
#32 DALLAS FANS HAVE NO IDEA THAT 50% OF THE TEAMS LOSE EVERY WEEK - CLH