Quotes from past gridiron legends have added to football's lore and should be passed on to today's youth to increase their wisdom. (These are good...)
- 'Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas ' Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to the 1969 game.
- 'After you retire, there's only one big event left... and I ain't ready for that.' Bobby Bowden / Florida State
- 'The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.' Lou Holtz / Arkansas
- 'When you win, nothing hurts.' Joe Namath / Alabama
- 'Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.' Lou Holtz / Arkansas
- 'If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, 'Roll, tide, roll!' Bear Bryant / Alabama
- 'A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.' Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
- 'There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the devil kicked out of you.' Woody Hayes / Ohio State
- '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
- 'In Alabama , an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.' Wally Butts / Georgia
- 'You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.' Paul Dietzel / LSU
- 'It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.' Bear Bryant / Alabama
- When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world. 'No, but you can see it from here.' Lou Holtz / Arkansas.
- '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
- 'There's one sure way to stop us from scoring-give us the ball near the goal line.' Matty Bell / SMU
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