"Famous Quotes!"

Speakers on for Notre Dame Fight Song     Click on school to advance  § Georgia Southern  § Florida State  § Arkansas   § Georgia § Alabama § Notre Dame § LSU § Tennessee § Ohio State § Other Quotes § John Heisman click thumbnail photos to enlarge    "At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any."  Erk Russell /Georgia Southern. Read Erk Russell's Bio  -- Georgia Southern Eagles Website 3Back to top   "After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that." Bobby Bowden / Florida State "Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel." Bobby Bowden / Florida State See Coach Bowden's Bio. . . More Bowden Quotes: Personal quotes: "It's better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed, than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail."    "Don't go to the grave with life unused." “He who gets the best players usually wins.”   “I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.” "He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words”  "A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better"        CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS (14)         1948 Dixie Conference Champions         1949 Dixie Conference Champions         1950 Dixie Conference Champions         1992 Atlantic Coast Conference Champions         1993 Atlantic Coast Conference Champions         1994 Atlantic Coast Conference Champions         1995 Atlantic Coast Conference Co-Champions         1996 Atlantic Coast Conference Champions         1997 Atlantic Coast Conference Champions         1998 Atlantic Coast Conference Co-Champions         1999 Atlantic Coast Conference Champions         2000 Atlantic Coast Conference Champions         2002 Atlantic Coast Conference Champions         2003 Atlantic Coast Conference Champions   CONFERENCE AFFILIATIONS 1947: Independent 1948-1950: Dixie Conference 1992-Current: Atlantic Coast Conference   Anyone remember this guy on the left from the fifties?  He was quite the actor even back then ;- ) when I was also a student at FSU.  -  The Webmaster Click on photo to enlarge and find the answer   3Back to top Visit Razorback's Website   3Back to top   "The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it." Lou Holtz / Arkansas  "No, but you can see it from here." Lou Holtz / Arkansas... When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world. "Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated." Lou Holtz / Arkansas  Read his bio. . . "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." "A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you." "Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired."   Visit Georgia web site      click thumbnail photos to enlarge "I'm Bulldog born, Bulldog bred, and when I die I'll be-by-God Bulldog dead."       Read his biography at - Lewis Grizzard official web site "Touchdown! My God, a touchdown! We threw it to Haynes with 5 seconds left! My God almighty, did you see what we did?! We just stomped on their face with a hob-nailed boot and broke their nose!!"      Larry Munson -- Georgia vs. Tennessee 2001   Left: UGA National Championship Team - 1980 Read more about the 1980 Championship year. . . Read name of all players on team "Every school needs an athletic director like Vince Dooley. His expertise and his vision and his judgment is unsurpassed by anyone I've ever known."       - Frank Broyles  Athletic Director, University of Arkansas    Left : Dooley with Herschel Walker 1980 Dooley, My 40 Years at Georgia Read his bio. . .   "Being a part of Georgia is something I get to do every day -  and I am very grateful for it."     -- Mark Richt, in his 7th year as head coach      Read Bio. . .     "And the thing about Georgia is that it never leaves you, no matter where you go in life. Athens...the Arch...the history of Georgia - it's just part of the fiber that is me. Growing up in Athens and being a Bulldog is special. It is part of your soul."         -   Fran Tarkenton   - Right   "I never get tired of running. The ball ain't that heavy."    -  Herschel Walker    "I don't believe there is any better opportunity than to have the chance to become a Georgia Bulldog. Georgia is a great school with outstanding tradition in both athletics and academics." -  Herschel Walker  Read more Left: Herschel won the 1982 Heisman Trophy after his junior season, only the seventh junior (at the time) to do so. "I don't care where a man comes from or how he spells his name. All I ask is that he be loyal to Georgia, proud of that jersey, and try like the devil to win."     - Wally Butts, Georgia Coach    "In Alabama, an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant."  Wally Butts / Georgia Coach      3Back to top     "When you win, nothing hurts." Joe Namath / Alabama       click thumbnail to enlarge   Coach Bear Bryant (1913-83) "If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, tide, roll!" Coach Paul Bear Bryant / Alabama  "It's kind of hard to rally around a math class." Bear Bryant /Alabama  "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 Visit The Paul W. Bryant Museum Visit University of Alabama Football Website www.RollTide.com   Alabama's National Championships        3Back to top 1925 1926 1930 1934 1941 1961 1964   1965 1973 1978 1979 1992   "A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall." Frank Leahy / Notre Dame Position: Head Coach 1941-43, 1946-53  "Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died." Frank Leahy / Notre Dame     Click here to read more about the legend, Knute Rockne. "Win one for the Gipper." "Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure." Knute Rockne / Notre Dame Knute Rockne was Notre Dame's master motivator  "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  "It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it."  Knute Rockne  / Notre Dame      "I've found that prayers work best when you have big players."       Knute Rockne / Notre Dame       He had six national championships in his 13 years at Notre Dame. He       also coached Notre Dame to five undefeated seasons without a tie.        Visit Notre Dame Football Website        3Back to top "You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life." Paul Dietzel / LSU LSU head coach Les Miles Miles Briefs Media After Shutout of Blue Raiders 9/16/07        3Back to top     "My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor."    Bowden Wyatt University of Tennessee Visit Tennessee Football Website     3Back to top   "There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you." Woody Hayes / Ohio State -- Read more about Wood Hayes Troy Smith 2006 Heisman Winner Click on thumbnail to enlarge     In their 116-year-history, the Buckeyes have been consensus Division IA National Champions four times (1942, 1954, 1968, and 2002), and officially recognize titles in three other years (1957, 1961, and 1970).  Jim Tressel has been the Buckeyes head coach since 2001. (From Wikipedia.org)   Visit Ohio State Football website.   3Back to top   Other Famous Quotes    "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  "There's one sure way to stop us from scoring-give us the ball near the goal line."     Matty Bell /SMU  "I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terns, Truman's and Eisenhower's."  Alex Karras / Iowa  "I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades." DuffyDaugherty / Michigan State  "They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces."  Darrell Royal / Texas  "They whipped us like a tied up goat." Spike Dykes / Texas Tech   "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 (Later for Dallas Cowboys)  "Football is not a contact sport-it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport." Duffy Daugherty / Michigan St  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  "If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education." Murray Warmath / Minnesota  "Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon." Spike Dykes / Texas Tech  "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  "Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad." Darrell Royal / University of Texas _____________________________  "Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas."  Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to the 1969 game.   3Back to top   John Heisman   "Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football"   John Heisman  Read more about the history of the Heisman   3Back to top

       
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