Posted before NFL Chamionship games

SOME WISDOM OF THE GAME

FROM THE EXPERTS.
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy........than to fumble THIS football"
John Heisman

"Show me a good and gracious loser.......and I'll show you a failure."
Knute Rockne /Notre Dame

"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."
Erk Russell / Georgia Southern.

"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."
Bob by 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 - Norte Dame

"When you win, nothing hurts."
Joe Namath / Alabama

"Motivation is simple.  You eliminate those who are not motivated."
Lou Holtz / Arkansas - Norte Dame

"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."
Fran k 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: 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

"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

"Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel."
Bob by 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:
"If there are 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

"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

"I've found that prayers work best when you have big players."
Knute Rockne / Notre Dame