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. '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 / 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

Enjoyed that post. I played for Coach Royal and Coach Dykes (when he coached at Texas), and against Coach Bryant. Some of those sayings were on the locker room board.

"When they play the national anthem, stand on your helmet with the sideline under your arm."
-- Bill Petersen / Rice

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious.
Vince Lombardi