(Let me have your favorites and I will add then)
Here are some famous and infamous quotes. I start with a couple of my own.
" We are going to win Super BOWLS (with an S) within 10 years." Jerry Richardson on site before construction of Panther Stadium when we all were dumb enough to believe and bought those PSL's - Let me know if you need a handful ..
" We are going to compete for the National Championship," Coach Butch Davis when introduced to Rams Club prior to first UNC football season . .
(Let me have your favorites and I will add then)
From Willie Hobson in 11/29/2009:
#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. 'I never graduated from Iowa , but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.' - Alex Karras / Iowa
#17. 'My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.' -Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee
#18. 'I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.' - Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
#19. 'Always remember... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.' - Shug Jordan / Auburn
#20. 'They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.' - Darrell Royal / Texas
#21. 'Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.' - Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
#22. '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
#23. 'Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.' - Bobby Bowden / Florida State
#24. 'Football is not a contact sport - it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.' - Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
#25. After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his post game message to his team: 'All those who need showers, take them.' - John McKay / USC
#26. 'If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.' - Murray Warmath / Minnesota
