“The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.” Lewis Grizzard
“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
“football is not a contact sport-it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.”
Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
“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
“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.” Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he’s got to play from the ground up — from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That’s OK You’ve got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you’ve got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you’re lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he’s never going to come off the field second.
Vince Lombardi
No star playing, just football.
Knute Rockne
People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.
Don Delillo
There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance — physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ”national pastime” pedestal in less than fifteen years.
Hunter S. Thompson
NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.
O. J. Simpson
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“If a man watches three football games in a row he should be declared legally dead.” Erma Louise Bombeck
“If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you.” Paul William “Bear” Bryant
“In Louisiana we don’t bet on football games … We bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.” Mark Duffy
“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.” Dwight David Eisenhower
“football is not a contact sport, it’s a collision sport - dancing is a contact sport.” Vincent Thomas “Vince” Lombardi
“The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.” Vincent Thomas “Vince” Lombardi
“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.” Vincent Thomas “Vince” Lombardi
“I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a “good hit,” which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player’s body.”
“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
“At Georgia Southern, we don’t cheat. That costs money and we don’t have any.”
Erk Russell / Georgia Southern.
“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
“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 hell kicked out of you.”
Woody Hayes / Ohio State
“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
“There’s one sure way to stop us from scoring - give us the ball near the goal line.”
Matty Bell / SMU
“Lads, you’re not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.”
Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
“My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor.”
Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee
“I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.”
Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
“Always remember….. Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.”
Shug Jordan / Auburn
“Show me a good and gracious loser, and I’ll show you a failure.”
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
“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
“football is not a contact sport-it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.”
Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
“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
“I see Auburn ’s Recruiting Coordinator just got here.”
Erk Russell / Georgia Southern on seeing a Brink’s Truck stop at the
front door of the Fountainbleau Hotel at a coaches convention.
“It isn’t necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.”
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
“We didn’t tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking.”
John McKay / USC
“Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.”
Darrell Royal / University of Texas
“I’ve found that prayers work best when you have big players.”
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
“Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this
football” John Heisman