Footballisms. . . .
"Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble the football"....  
          – sHeisman, first football coach at Rice  
 
"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. But 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/Dallas Cowboys
"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.”