Great Sports Quotes

And now for Something Completely Different…

“Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble the football”
– John Heisman

“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

” It isn’t necessary to see a good tackle, you can hear it!”
– Knute Rockne | Notre Dame

“At Georgia Southern, we don’t cheat. That costs money, and we don’t have any.”
– Erik 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 – Notre Dame

“When you win, nothing hurts.”
– Joe Namath | 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 hell 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

“I never graduated from Iowa. I was only there for two terms – Truman’s and Eisenhower’s.”
– Alex Karras | Iowa

“My advice to defensive players is to 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

“I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn’t recruit me .” He said, “Well, Walt, we took a look at you, and you weren’t any good.”
– Walt Garrison | Oklahoma State

“Son, you’ve got a good engine, but your hands aren’t on the steering wheel.”
– Bobby Bowden | Florida 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 was;

“All those who need showers, take them.”
– John McKay | USC

” If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.”
– Murray Warmath | Minnesota

“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

“We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.”
– Darrell Royal | Texas

“We didn’t tackle well today, but we made up for it by not blocking.”
– John McKay | USC

“I’ve found that prayers work best when you have big players.”
– Knute Rockne | Notre Dame

Ohio State’s Urban Meyer on one of his players:

“He doesn’t know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades and he doesn’t know the meaning of a lot of words.”

And my all-time favorite…

“Cause I couldn’t go for three!” – Woody Hayes | Ohio State

Coach Hayes was asked why he went for the two-point conversion after the final touchdown of The Big Game against Michigan in 1968, already leading the game 48 to 14. This was his answer.