Lessons from American Football

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 Old, but still appropriate quotes.
 
#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 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
 

#37.  After losing to  Missouri , 35-10, in the 1968 Gator Bowl -- "They run up and down the field on us like we was some barber college."  - Bear Bryant / Alabama